GUIDED CONTEMPLATION - "My Self is Not My Own" --- by Nyanamoli Thero

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5 жыл бұрын

Asking the right questions to oneself and allowing them to endure, not jumping at the opportunity to give oneself an answer deemed correct. This is because discernment can come only when you BECOME a question. When it is not merely asked, but also felt. You want to be able to discern the answers, not give them.
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@fruitionapt 3 жыл бұрын

"Who out of the two of you is not minding their own business?" Love this. Thank you

@hariharry391 28 күн бұрын

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@lilysloan8905 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this helpful talk.

@DV4api Жыл бұрын

Brilliant bhante, brilliant!!! 🙏🙏

@sonamtsheringlepchalepcha8218 Жыл бұрын

Thank u.

@eastxeast Жыл бұрын

Thankyou… that what was unknown becomes known.

@thewisdomoption777 3 жыл бұрын

This was excellent. Found this channel few weeks ago and now have been digging to these talks, because these seem to talk from a viewpoint that is quite precise and sheds light to Buddhas teachings. The anatta, not-self principle has been explained and arrived upon in many different spiritual traditions (inside and outside of buddhism), with of course Buddhas explanations being the best and most scientific. But this explanation hits right in the middle, with a sense of clarity and cleanliness. This is a talk I will listen many times. Thank you!

@thewisdomoption777 3 жыл бұрын

Buddha said is one of the suttas that therw are 3 kinds on "self". A body self, a mind self, and a self made of perception. And that he teaches how to remove all three (conceivings). So my understanding is that there IS a self, BUT its only conceived. Imputed by thought, as Dalai Lama said in his book: How to see yourself as you really are and which was also said in this talk. And of course because its created, caused, subject to causes, its non-self. Also, what is made on non-self materials, cannot be a self.

@michelangequay2794 4 ай бұрын

The Pali anatta is as often translated 'not self' but perhaps just as accurately 'not mine'. The Buddha refused to engage the irrelevant question 'is there a self' or any questions of 'is there this or that' or 'what comes before or what will come after', teaching that the ignorance behind this presuppositions is the expression of our craving, which is the only issue, the tendency to think things are 'ours'. The Ajahns hear teach that we feel we 'are' because we take things to be 'ours', not the other way around. The Buddha seemed to direct us to notice the context of our assumptions to better understand our intention, that we get free of the suffering that occurs from not discerning the gratuity of our unexamined appetites