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I am reading a book called Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness. I am on the first section which deals with the viewpoint of emptiness of skhandas which are: form, feeling (good bad neutral), perception, formations (volition), and consciousness.
The question I had was if there was no self in these skhandas then who had done my laundry that morning. My laundry was now clean so how can it be that there is no self. The laundry got clean somehow.
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I am not a human being, I am being human right now.
Asking who did the laundry is odd... perhaps the compression of perceptions that made the shapes and colors into "Laundry" also made the washer into "Jeffrey"?
Remember what Jack Kornfield said, in a chapter heading in one of his books:
"After Enlightenment, the laundry". Even self-less Enlightened ones have laundry and bookkeeping and grocery shopping, and... and... so on. When they take a bath, whom are they bathing? Their self/themselves. But all it is, is a body, a vessel. It's not something to get caught up in, or to show off, or to use to impress people. It's just a vessel that needs to be washed, like the day's dishes. To not get caught up in self, that's the trick. :thumbsup:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo
The suspense is killing me . . .
Thanks Jason, for the Selves & Not-self....I am thankful for all the material offered on this site !
Not only does it change but in any given moment it is also empty because it is comprised of non-self elements, namely the skhandas but you could also say the exploded stars that make up the elements of our bodies, the food we eat, the air we breath or the people we know that help us define our personalities.
(You may have to take a step back to see this one.)