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- 1Ancient Buddhist text compares mind and body●The oldest Buddhist description I know, likely composed 200-300 years after Buddha, of how the mind and body are differe
A passage from one of the oldest known Buddhist texts, likely composed two to three centuries after the Buddha's death, is being shared as an early description of mind-body dualism. It likens the mind leaving the body to a reed drawn from its sheath, a sword from its scabbard, or a snake shedding its skin, framing mind and body as distinct things.