00:00What are the grounds for each of the assumptions that you're making?
00:03You're making an assumption about the ego.
00:05You're making an assumption that the dissolution of the ego is the highest good.
00:11So you can test it.
00:13It's just that you cannot peer review it.
00:18You can test it for yourself.
00:20The ego is not a hidden quantity somewhere.
00:22The ego is the assertion by every member of our species that I am.
00:31That's the assertion.
00:31And that's an assertion I make, you make.
00:34Next thing, how do we know that goodness lies in dissolution of the ego?
00:39That again is something that you and I can verify from our daily life.
00:44So as I speak to you right now, we can test it.
00:48If I speak to you from a point of self-preservation, you know, I am someone with some kind of
00:55a reputation in some part of the world.
00:58Therefore, in this international podcast, I must be able to defend my views.
01:08Then what I'm going to say is surely going to get corrupted.
01:13Then I'm here to argue against you and you are here to defend yourself against me.
01:18So this is not a belief system.
01:20It is just that it is just that it cannot be tested by you on my behalf.
