YMSA - Kirtan Meditation Studio Suffolk Park NSW

WHO AM I 

Most people think I am this body or perhaps the brain.

I disagree with this view however and I am going to demonstrate why by comparing my body with a car .

Do you drive a really old car? I used to have an old FORD --The "Fix Or Repair Daily!"…."Found On the Road Dead"..... and it was...several times!

Practically speaking I built a new Ford car after replacing all the parts over five years. It was a completely different car to the one I started with.
Similarly, by the process of metabolism replacing the cells (or parts of the body), I've got a new body that I didn't have five years ago. Unfortunately that doesn't alter the ageing process. My Ford was old and valueless but that didn't make me old or valueless. Now my body is old but I don't feel old or valueless.

Now to use the analogy of comparing the body with a car.

• I replaced the engine.
• Doctors transplant hearts
• I replace the steel ball joints
• Doctors fit new titanium hips & knees
• I repaint the car.
• By metabolism the body grows a new skin in about a month.
• I replace the fuel filter
• The body replaces the liver in six weeks
• I replace the GPS computer in the car.
• The body replaces the brain in my head.
• Surprising huh!! You may have thought the nerve & brain cells didn't regenerate.

Let me quote Paul Weiss:

"Recent Studies on the turnover of the molecular population within a given nerve cell have indicated that their macro-molecular contingent is renewed about ten thousand times in a lifetime"

Taken from Paul Weiss:

" The Living System; Determinism Stratified."

in Arthur Koestler and J R Smythies, eds., Beyond Reductionism (London:Hutchison, 1969), p. 13.

In other words the matter making up the brain cells changes completely every three days.

I exist now and in three days I'll still be the same person. It's obvious that I'm not the brain but I'm simply using the brain. If I was the brain I would be a different person every three days.

So If I'm not the brain I must be some other part of the body, right?

Wrong, sorry;

Let me quote Dr Paul Aebersold of the Oak Ridge Atomic Reseach Center

• And my late friend, Donald Hatch Andrews, Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, who seems to have given the matter long consideration, put it at about five years, after which one can presumably consider one's physical body completely new, down to the very last atom. 

Who Am I, if I'm not this body?

I'm the living force using this body now and five years ago I existed using a totally different
body.

I am not dependent on this material body for my existence rather this material body is dependent on me for it's existence and as soon as I the self, leave this body it dies.

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Namaste
Chris
KMSSP