Purification of What? - 12.17.09

Student Question: You talked earlier about the purification of the soul, but I am confused with the term soul because in Buddhism they don’t use soul. So what is being purified?

“It’s the continuity of sanskaras that create the illusion of an entity. So soul does not really exist. It’s part of Maya, but it’s apparent existence can create plenty of trouble for you. And so it must be purified until there is no longer the sense of being an entity, but one is simply identified as the entirety of the whole of the process that this creation is, not as some separate part.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 17, 2009.