Friends:
What is the most essential core Buddhist Doctrine?
Question: What is the first hindrance (samyojana=fetter=mental chain)
blocking entrance to the Noble Path leading to Nibbāna (sotāpatti-magga)?
Answer: This first hindrance is Personality View (Sakkāya-ditthī):
"Permanent personality" belief,
"Same Self" as baby & old person assumption,
"I am this Me" self-deceit,
"This Body is my Own" notion,
"This Body is my Self" notion,
"This Body is ME" notion,
"This Body is my Person" notion
"I have a permanent Ego" concept
"Body is mine+own+person" view
"Feeling is mine+own+person" view
"Perception is mine+own+person" view
"Construction is mine+own+person" view
"Consciousness is mine+own+person" view
All are conjectures of the false assumption, that these phenomena are stable
entities, that can be kept unchanging & thereby definable as the core of self!
This concept of "a person" is rather a process, a transient flux,
continuously becoming otherwise and something else.
We are more different from what we were 5 minutes ago,
than we are different from an other person ...
Never are we the same person ... !
The person is thus : "Na ca so, na ca anno"
Not the same, neither another!
King Milinda's Questions. Milindapanha.
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Any Person is:
Always changing,
Not the Same,
yet neither another,
but continuously becoming
Otherwise & Different!
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View the world as Empty
Thus always Aware, Mogharaja
Giving up belief in any Self
One may escape Death,
since the king of Death cannot
see one with such void view.
Sutta Nipāta 1119
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All phenomena are Egoless,
impersonal, without a self!
Sabbe Dhamma Anatta
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Selflessness = Anatta
Is difficult to comprehend as habitually
counterintuitive yet the most essential &
unique teaching in all the Buddha-Dhamma!
-ooOoo-
More on this baffling Selflessness:
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm> http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
Have a nice day!
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Bhikkhu Samāhita, Sri Lanka *
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Look Mama: No Ego!
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