The Nothingness of You

A disappearing act for enlightenment

Steven Gambardella
The Sophist
Published in
6 min readMar 6, 2022

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Photo by Shoeib Abolhassani on Unsplash

When you look at the philosophies of the world, from Buddhism of the ancient East to Existentialism in the modern West, there’s a fundamental idea that they all have in common. That idea is that there really is no “I”.

We live out a fantasy of selfhood. It goes something like this — your body is you, and your brain is the seat of your…

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