> you can't point to any _one part_ of our being or experience and say that that's the irreducible self. This is why I find Buddhist reasoning superior to "Wes

> you can't point to any _one part_ of our being or experience and say that that's the irreducible self. This is why I find Buddhist reasoning superior to "Western" reasoning when the concept of the Self is the topic. There is no real model of the self, what it is at bedrock, in the Western tradition. Reason can't be applied to a non-model. Buddhism has a model. A good model can be improved and a bad model can be corrected. It's still better than no model. I found Chandrakirti’s metaphor of the chariot helpful: "A chariot is not asserted to be other than its parts" https://nonduality.com/goode6.htm https://nonduality.com/goode6.htm