The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 91 of 254
The chariot exists but not apart from its parts
This is sometimes taken to mean that chariots do not exist, only their parts. But this is clearly nonsense. A cart is not an illusion just because it has no existence other than by the correct arrangement of its parts. The only thing that doesn’t exist is an object which is somehow independent of its parts. In the same way, the self clearly exists, it is just not a thing independent of its constituent parts.