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AwakenTheWorldFilm narrates a film about what the mind is and who the word I refers to. People, it says, have long asked that question, and have tried philosophy, psychology, science, and direct looking. Infinite awareness gets blended with whatever is being experienced, and that blend is taken to be a person inside a body. What the film calls the ego is the felt sense of me, and is not the real self. It is built by being treated as a separate someone, and by likes and dislikes that form once the mind has split one thing from another. A quoted I becomes the separate identity people carry through a life. Later passages treat suffering as a reason to look at thought and at the one who seems to think. Glimpses of ease get mistaken for the truth, and people then chase states. Near the end, trouble is said to continue while action rests on a separate I, in politics, religion, money, or schooling. The only fix the film names is to wake up.
Key points
- AwakenTheWorldFilm narrates a film about the mind and the word I.
- People, it says, have tried philosophy, psychology, science, and direct looking.
- A blend of awareness and experience is taken to be a person inside a body.
- The ego, in this telling, is the felt sense of me and is not the real self.
- Suffering is treated as a reason to look at thought and at the one who thinks.
- The film says trouble continues while action rests on a separate I.
Short quotes
Humans have used philosophy, psychological and scientific theories as well as methods of direct investigation to penetrate the mind's secrets.
AwakenTheWorldFilm, Awaken the World on the mind
The film says people have used philosophy, psychology, and science to look into the mind. Watch at 1:55
The ego is the personal sense of me but it's not the true self.
AwakenTheWorldFilm, Awaken the World on the mind
It says the felt sense of a personal me is not the real self. Watch at 4:34
This "I" becomes our individual separate and unique identity as we move through life.
AwakenTheWorldFilm, Awaken the World on the mind
A sense of I, it says, hardens into the separate identity people carry. Watch at 7:28
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