This is probably the best explanation of non-self I have heard. And I have heard many different versions, which were mostly pretty confusing. Thank you so much Ajahn Brahm, you are simply awesome!

Never heard such beautiful explanation of karma. You make it more likely that good things will happen

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Sadhu!sadhu! Sadhu!

Buddha denies 3 things in Samyutta Nikaya 44.10 concerning the self. (1) He says he does not say "There is self" to Vachagotta the Brahmin because he'll interpret it that Buddha is confirming the Brahmin doctrine of the self, i.e. that there is only one self/soul in the whole universe, i.e. Brahma, and we all share that soul. So he denies that there is only ONE self shared by everyone. (2) He says he does not say "There is NO self" to Vachagotta because he will interpret it that there is literally no self, and think "So the self I had before does not exist now?" So Buddha denies that there is literally no self. (3) He says he did not tell Vachagotta "there is self" because he might interpret it inconsistent with the insight that all conditioned phenomenom (like the body, the aggregates, any physical thing) is non-self. The one thing Buddha does NOT deny is the standard Western view of the self, that we all have our OWN immaterial soul (rather than all sharing one, and rather than having none, and rather than the self being something physical like the body). Its clear Buddha was laboring hard to teach Hindus (what we now know as) the Western view of the self.

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All explanations about the non-self are all right, however the real experience of non-self has absolutely nothing to do with words, I repeat nothing, simply because it is innefable, it is not a narration, it is an experience. I ask you to seat in the lotus position and I run arround you screaming fire, fire, flames, great fire, and you never burn. You'll see by yourself when you experience your non-self.

Unfortunately this monk is still obsessing over the fact that he got dumped. Subconsciously, he still uses love and heart in his talks, which is an indication that it is everything to him. Love is just one aspect of life, not the whole of it. Let your own intelligence and wisdom guide you through life, not individuals whom export bygone's into others. ( Oh and btw, you fall in, and you fall out, its just another condition arising, from this conditioned realm. )

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