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Coherent being

Coherent being

Imagine that you’re playing a board game like Monopoly.

The game is a given — something we are born into — and our existence is framed such that it’s only meaningful in the context of the game’s rules and elements and processes.

That’s how the ego relates to life: “life is a given, and I am an object born into that given environment.”

The model of reality is like the Monopoly game — our “knowledge of what things mean”, including our own existence.

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