The Aggregate Self and the Cap Peddler 08/21/2016 Someone posted a link online to a video of the old children’s story about the cap peddler called “Caps for Sale”. I watched it and thought about it as an allegory for the Buddha’s teaching that what we consider our “self” is an aggregate—a collection of many phenomena without a center, focal point, or legitimate basis. First I will present his basic theory in my own words and explanation, then I will explain it through the video. The proposition is fairly simple, only difficult to see given
Someone posted a link online to a video of the old children’s story about the cap peddler called “Caps for Sale”. I watched it and thought about it as an allegory for the Buddha’s teaching that what we consider our “self” is an aggregate—a collection of many phenomena without a center, focal point, or legitimate basis. First I will present his basic theory in my own words and explanation, then I will explain it through the video. The proposition is fairly simple, only difficult to see given
