Consciousness and the Self: One Early Buddhist Monk's Famous Mistake

Are you your consciousness? We'll look for an answer to this question by considering the famous mistake of Sāti the Fisherman's Son, an early Buddhist monk who was famously corrected by the Buddha. We'll also consider where Sāti might have gotten his view from.

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✅ Book mentioned:
Patrick Olivelle, The Early Upaniṣads — https://amzn.to/3hGP3Tm

✅ Suttas mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/mn38/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/sn22.59/en/s...

00:00 Intro
01:17 Sāti’s view
03:41 Possible origin of Sāti's view
09:28 The Buddha’s view
10:11 What is consciousness for the Buddha?
13:17 Toward some later views

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