The View There Is No Self is Wrong View

Cloud

That sounds like the beginning of Genesis (in the Bible).

fivebells

This essay, No-self vs True Self, might add some useful perspective to this debate.

Victorious

What is nagging me about a continuos process is Anicca. Where is the begining and end of a c

there is no wrong view

If you believe in Nibbana then all else is wrong view. Ne?

Jeffrey

Continuity is created by thought. Because each moment can be divided and there is no smallest moment.

DairyLama

Continuity is created by thought. Because each moment can be divided and there is no smallest moment.

I'd say that the sense of continuity is created by consciousness. I was thinking that an analogy might be a film reel. We can either look at the film one frame at a time ( momentary approach ) or we can play it in slow motion ( continuity approach ). I'd suggest it's the latter that we are doing when we meditate and practice mindfulness.

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Jeffrey

Depends what experience you are assigning continuity to. If the slow motion is made of of slides with no substance, doesn't it logically follow that the slow motion is like a conjurers trick?? I'm not denying that there is an experience. That is why suffering is a problem.

SherabDorje

Suffering is like a conjurer's trick. That's what the NTs are about.

Vajraheart

Cracked ribs, 10 dollars to my name, jobless, on the edge of homelessness... still... so much joy!! Wow... genius!!

Sorry to hear you're going through a tough time, Vajra. Glad you're finding joy in it, though.

I'm not finding joy in it, I'm finding joy seeing through it.

As in seeing it's transparency...