No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.”

Mistaking the voice in our head for a thing and labeling it “me” brings us into conflict with the neuropsychological evidence that shows there is no such thing.

Gazzaniga determined that the left side of the brain created explanations and reasons to help make sense of what was going on.

To take it a step further, the implication is that without thought, the self does not, in fact, exist.

The brain breathes mind like the lungs breathe air.