Dan Harris

It will die.

Here's the grimmest one.

Everything and everyone I cherish will someday be lost to me.

And the fifth one where he kind of pulls the knife out a little bit, as Vinny says, the only true possessions I have in this context are my actions.

And so that's where the kind of hope resides, which is, okay, so yeah, if you want to look at it, the truth of this reality that we inhabit is that it is

relentlessly impermanent and chaotic and entropic and very little is in your control.

But you are in control of your actions to a large degree.

And the karmic consequences of those actions will outlive you.

And so if you take that seriously, it will impact how you behave.

And that to me feels like a soul.

Like, I guess when I use that word, it's just some kind of what

What difference do we make?

Who are we?

And if we are the sum total of how we behave here, the choices we make and the actions we take and the consequences of those actions.

That makes sense to me.

Makes sense to me, too.

I'm totally cool with calling that a soul.

I don't, you know, I have no desire to, like, police people's language.

So soul is, it's certainly inoffensive to me.

But from a Buddhist perspective, you know, it's not a thing.