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		cammil on May 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness... This reminds me of dependent origination from Buddhism.

supertofu on May 26, 2024 | [–]

Very, very much so. And she is literally describing her existence before language as a state of pure craving, aversion, ignorance.

rramadass on May 26, 2024 | [–]

Wikipedia as usual has a nice write up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da

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