Buddhism Q&A - If There is No Self: Who Does The Action and Who Receives The Results Actions?
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- Buddhism Explained Q&A: If There is No Self - Who Does The Action and Who Receives The Results Actions?
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If you've ever been in an introductory course on Buddhism, you've probably heard this question: "If there is no self, what does the action and what receives the results of the action?" Our discussions this week show that this question is misconstrued in two ways.
The first is that the Buddha never said that there is no self, and he never said that there is a self. The question of whether a self does or doesn't exist is a question he put aside.
The second reason for why the question is misconstrued is because it has the framework backwards. It's taking the teaching of not-self as the framework and kamma as something that's supposed to fit inside the framework. Actually, the relationship is the other way around. Kamma is the framework, and the teaching of not-self is meant to fit in the framework. In other words, the Buddha takes the teachings on skillful and unskillful kamma as his basic categorical teaching. Within that context, the question on self and not-self becomes: When is a perception of self skillful kamma, and when is a perception of not-self skillful kamma? And when are they not skillful?
So to get the most use out of the teachings on self and not-self, we have to approach them with these questions in mind. The Buddha is not trying to define what you are. He's not trying to fit you into a box. He's more concerned with helping you. He tries to show you how you define yourself so that you can learn how to use that process of self-definition in a way that leads to the ultimate goal of his teaching: the end of suffering and the attainment of ultimate freedom, ultimate happiness. In this way the teachings on self and not-self are part of the answer to the question,
"What when I do it will lead to my long-term welfare and happiness?"
In this context the Buddha talks about the process of what he calls I-making and my-making, with the purpose of showing you how to engage in these actions in a skillful way. Normally we engage in these processes all of the time. We create a sense of "I" in two ways: (1) around what we can control in order to attain happiness and (2) around the aspects of our experience - our mind, our body - that we hope will taste happiness. In other words, we have a sense of our self as the agent or producer of happiness, and our self as the consumer of happiness. We start out very early in life developing our sense of self in these ways. And we create many different selves. Remember the story I told about your little sister. When bullies down the street are threatening her, she is very much your sister. When you get her home safely and she takes your toy car, she is no longer your sister. She's the Other. This shows that your sense of self is changing all the time - like an amoeba taking on many different forms.
So it's good to understand that the sense of self is a strategy, and that we engage in this strategy, making many selves, all the time. Sometimes they're mutually coherent, sometimes not. Sometimes they're honest and straightforward, and sometimes not. This is something that becomes very apparent during meditation. As we've been mentioning throughout this week, your mind is like a committee. Each member of the committee is a different self that you've created and nurtured at some point during your life as a particular strategy for attaining a particular happiness. Sometimes they get along; sometimes they don't. Sometimes they tell the truth; sometimes they lie. When you start meditating, you encounter them all. The skill of meditation lies in learning how to achieve some order and honesty among the members of the committee, identifying with the more skillful ones, trying to keep the unskillful ones under control, and bringing some truth to their interactions so that you can bring the mind into jhāna.
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Someone asked, why am I born into the world and what is my purpose?
If one has not encounter the Buddha's Teachings then you won't know the reason for being a human.
Without the Buddha's Teachings you would not know how to change one's destiny : From dull and foolish to, person with wisdom, from unhealthy to strong healthy person, from poverty to contended lives and an unhappy person to life of blissfulness.
As a human, if never encounter the Buddha's Teachings, then you are here to either enjoy your good karmas or to suffer the retributions of your bad karmas.
One encounters the Buddha's Teachings knows that it is very difficult to attain human form and very difficult to encounter the Buddha's Teachings.
Buddhism is an education of wisdom. Learn Buddhism one has the opportunity to transcend birth and death and to become a Buddha.
🙏🙏🙏Amituofo
This video overall shows us to believe that before an individual can even chase for non-self directly which even actually be more realistic than considering self it may not be right first step of the ultimate path to nirvana or enlightenment as before thinking about to pass in any subject (in term of academy) we first need to be fully aware or acknowledge that subject (be aware and comprehend ourselves vs. other or dualism understanding first in this context) itself then once we understand the subject we try to pass it and go beyond the subject like for example in term of academy choosing new subject or challenge (non-self in this context). Once we comprehend self and none-self then we literally leave everything behind by doing jhana meditation and reach in a level where we forget the self and none-self all together and experience fully that moment without depending upon any conditions (unconditional way), none dualistic, pure, none judgmental, unobstructed etc way. Just experiencing and not even thinking about what is experiencing it or what’s not experiencing it. This video is showing the ultimate truth no doubt if you are wise enough you will understand unless not for sure.
No self means everything is impermanent. How can I control myself when I cannot stop anything happening? For example, stop aging etc! This is true wisdom.
Soon I hope ya’ll will just disappear 🫠, melt away evil ones…
Namyoho Renge Kyo to all the lions amongst men! The true Buddhists!
Human brain scans itself at 0.5-60Hz (Delta to Gamma) collecting all sensory inputs, cognition (frontal cortex), feelings (amygdala), motor cortex and memory, combing them and creating a sense of self, as well as a state of no-self at each scanning cycle. Being aware of these arisings and vanishings of self is the mastery that no human has ever achieved. Some Zen masters who focus on arisings and vanishings of self, develop the most skills after decades of such meditation. They do not study dhamma much or pursue nibbana, they just practice mindfulness with outmost consistency.
What the Buddha and Nagarjuna really said was there is a self and a no self. Don't get fixed to either. Everthing is empty and contingent. The goal is peace and nirvana.
Is the question, is there a self or is there something that is represented by that word self? The word tree points to a tree. But what does self point to outside the aggregates of form and senses? The Sanskrt word is Atman. Is it the fallacious self that gets hurt when someone criticizes us? Our image gets hurt. You react? (I) never lie for example. You are telling the person that this body,brain and mouth haven't lied but in the process a subtle self is created. Through awareness you can see the creation of your self. The Buddha said... Oh builder, no longer will I build this house. He's talking about the self.
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With this videos they wash your brain to believe there is no soul. But there is soul indeed.
This is why only Nichiren Shoshu calls itself TRUE Buddhism.
In Nichiren Shoshu, there is oneness between the person and the law or Dhamma. We are Dhamma atta or Dharma Atma.
I agree more and more, non-Nichiren Buddhists are false buddhisms.
I love Nichiren Shoshu!
There’s multiple dimensions so hold multiple level of spirituality. The level where someone claims to not have soul is ultimate nirvana (supreme happiness) or enlightenment. In terms of 3 mark of existence (if something has to none exist such things should not be related to any of these 3 marks) a soul can be impermanence as it will be involved into a conditioned world named samsara which has also the nature of impermanence, that soul will have obligations to work under good way unless the bad karma will degrade its quality meaning the soul already hold some quality of suffering too and last but not least Annica defines the soul to be our own and create separation from others soul making it not wholesome like consciousness which might be the purest and ultimate reality of mother nature which is only what may be beyond conditional or samsara dimension (that’s beyond level can be assumed as the nirvana where nothing exists) rather than like soul. So there’s soul in this dimension of samara I mean but may be to fully get enlightenment like buddha we need to even cease our soul and where consciousness may only exist (becoming the wholesome)
There is nothing to believe. Only to realise.
This video is discussing the Buddha teachings according to the Pāli nikayas . There isn’t brainwashing .
@@saddha1 Nichiren Buddhism isn’t original Buddhism at all . The doctrine of anatman or Anatta is Buddhism 101 . The nikayas and agamas sutras are the foundation of all Buddhism schools .
The video did not capture the essence of Buddha’s teaching. The most profound teaching of His, “There is no self. There is also no non-self”. Such is the truth. Do you understand? 😂