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Books about No Self

shays860shays860
edited April 2012 in Buddhism Basics
I see a few on Amazon. Anyone ever read a book primarily on No Self? It seems like one is warranted since this seems to be the least understood aspect of Buddhism.

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  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Check out "I AM THAT." Google it... It is free.
  • xabirxabir Veteran
    edited April 2012
    Check out "I AM THAT." Google it... It is free.
    This book teaches about Self, the Brahman... not no self.
  • ArthurbodhiArthurbodhi Mars Veteran
    This book take specially this subject:

    "Selves & Not-Self' - by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
    http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma14/notself.html

    Blessings.
  • SeaOfTranquilitySeaOfTranquility Veteran
    "No Self No Problem" - Anam Thubten
  • ToshTosh Veteran
    "No Self No Problem" - Anam Thubten
    Good book; I liked that one a lot.

  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    It seems to me that any book of any sort would of necessity require a self (the writer) and hence, as regards "no self" be suspect at best.
  • xabirxabir Veteran
    It seems to me that any book of any sort would of necessity require a self (the writer) and hence, as regards "no self" be suspect at best.
    That a deed requires a doer is a conventional statement but not ultimately true.

    Visudhimagga:

    "Mere suffering is, not any sufferer is found
    The deeds exist, but no performer of the deeds:
    Nibbana is, but not the man that enters it,
    The path is, but no wanderer is to be seen."

    ...

    No doer of the deeds is found,
    No one who ever reaps their fruits;
    Empty phenomena roll on:
    This only is the correct view.

    And while the deeds and their results
    Roll on and on, conditioned all,
    There is no first beginning found,
    Just as it is with seed and tree. ...

    No god, no Brahma, can be called
    The maker of this wheel of life:
    Empty phenomena roll on,
    Dependent on conditions all.

  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    An extremely short book is called Thundering Silence, by Thich Nhat Hanh
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