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Re: Non-Self and Self in layman's terms
"Self" is a convenient "fiction" to enable us to communicate with "others". It is as real the USA, London, money, 3 o'clock, democracy etc. They don't inherently exist b… (View Post)
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Re: the downside of 'mindfulness'
Mindfulness is just a tool. How one uses it depends on its purpose. Is it being used to help end suffering or to increase productivity through stress reduction? Also the tool can be used wrongly. (Qu… (View Post)
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Re: How to practice loving-kindness towards self?
(Quote) Metta is a feeling of kindness towards all beings. One suggestion is to turn the contemplation into protecting this metta within us like a mother protects her only child. Arouse this feeling … (View Post)1 -
Re: What is the unconditioned?
(Quote) The aggregates are sankharas and conditioned. No argument here. It is not so much an "escape" as a realisation that the unconditioned has always being there. The visual image would … (View Post)
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Re: What is the unconditioned?
The description above is not about anatta but the experience of nibbana. Forget the word emptiness and try to understand what the whole paragraph is trying to express. It clearly points that the end … (View Post)
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