The longest sound a human can male is "M" the shortest sound a human can make is "D" the perfect balance between the "M" and the "D" is "I" so enlightenment has nothing to do with sound, Which means that Enlightenment has nothing to do with the cortices
@@WoodstockG54 That's the first stage To lose the thought process, to see that the words in our mind are the first false idol to fall, But there is a "twist in the tail" of human consciousness Biology she is far more clever than we at first realised, it probably took us hundreds of thousands of years to work out what she is up to , the tricks mummy is capable of That's why we wrote the religions, to Echo the narrative , behind a façade That's what drives everyone nuts in the path The sudden understanding that nothing is as it seems
@@lietjiemin667 That is only what you read, but inreality it has not yet happened to you! What is emptiness, liberation and enlightenment is only a thing in your mind! Before anything else, you must know who you really are, then a deeper enlightenment follows, then if you persist on your sadhana liberation follows.
The discourse by Buddha himself in Paticasamupada sutta explains the dependent origination and the notion of Self and non self is avoided.. completely changed my understanding of Nature's Law
The final realization that there is nobody to become enlightened or liberated is the Cosmic Joke preceding enlightenment. This is enlightened laughter where there is no one laughing in the absence of a subject and object. Laughing just happens on its own accord without a doer. Enlightenment is just the Awareness of Primordial Awareness that is timeless and spaceless. Freedom has always been Free and the simple realization of this Reality is enlightenment. Our intrinsic Buddha Nature is always Here and Now and completely accessible in theNOW-ness of the Moment without a subject. What Is, simply IS as pure IS-ness in the absence of a “me” as the “I-less I”. Emptiness is Presence. I refer to this stateless state as Sunyata Ananda or the Bliss of Emptiness and the Emptiness of Bliss. Bodhi Svaha 🙏🏽 ✨☀️✨🌘🌞🌒✨☀️✨
The entire message conveyed calls upon the "self" to do something, I contend that the first thing is the Grace of the SELF must initiate the quest to look. All efforts and outcomes are the activity of the SELF, my opinion.
Suttas did not say there is no self or there is a self. It says what we normally consider self or belonging to self are actually non self. The perception of non self is one of the 3 characteristics or openings into enlightenment. Cheers.
Actually the Mahayana sutras teach no self - period. Entities have no self-nature. Reality does not conform itself to the rules of human language. Realization sees through the illusion of "self" and "other". There are many here who are into Theravada, and even non-Buddhist Hindu teachings. Hence the confusion about the concept of "self". In the Mahayana there is no self.
@bobaldo2339 Mahayana and Tibetan are fake Buddhism because they developed more than 600 years and 1000 years respectively after Buddha. so they contain a lot of teachings which deviate from the original teaching of Buddha. Sad to see later practices deteriorate into superstition, relaxation of monks precepts, tantric, mantras etc. This greatly deviate from the cultivation of virtue, deep meditation and insight wisdom found in the original teachings. Cheers.
Was Nagarjuna's works inline with Buddha's teachings? My friend the other was saying he was creating works which were directed at the monks who where deviating from Buddha's teachings and misinterpreting them.
Self-discipline cures our body. Deep concentration cures our mind. Wisdom cures our behaviour. Therefore, a person who practices Buddhism is wise in thought, speech and behaviour. So how could such a person be unhappy? Committing wrongdoings, being confused and remaining in ignorance are the three major problems of sentient beings in our modern world. If sentient beings don't have these problems, there is no need for the Buddha's Teachings. It is like a person is not ill, there is no need to Buddha to prescribe any medicine. When beings are well, the teachings are unnecessary and introducing them might even lead to more issues. This is similar to a healthy person taking medicine everyday and eventually falling ill. The Buddha will teach when sentient beings are afflicted with these problems. 🙏🙏🙏 Amitabha Buddha
We don’t choose our thoughts. Nor how we feel about things. We don’t choose our will, since choosing will is just expressing will. The same is true for God. This is unity (there’s no stuff at the bottom of atoms- everything is space/God), but nothing chooses. We express what our will is, in every moment.
Wether anything speaks to you at all depends on you. Or as Feynman quoted Gibbons in his lecture notes on Physics "The efforts of teaching are rarely of much efficacy except in those favourable circumstances when they are almost superfluous. 50 years later just now I realised that's when I got enlightened without being aware of it. True virtue does not know itself as 1.
Know Yourself Believe Yourself Discipline Yourself,Nothing belongs to you in this World.The last thing that leave the body is the Soul.Made it works before you passed away.That is The Purpose In Life.(Enlightenment.)
Buddha teaches that there is no individual soul or spirit , and Jesus teaches that bodies do not contain anything . Bodies are part of the illusion of self.
I love the way ypu describe the teaching styles as let each person take the final step in the journey, over the finish line, rather than trying to get people to understand it logically. It hs to be experienced. If you don't mind, I would like to use that teaching example in a book I am writing on this subject?
Yes, absolutely, you're welcome to use that teaching example in your book. I'm honored that it was helpful and inspiring to you. I wish you all the best with your writing!
Live from the space of open awareness. if you were never selfish or never wanting willing anything but pay attention and follow it's lead. You cannot want it. Let go of desire you can have it all
"There is no permanent self. Instead of focusing on who. The Buddha encouraged to look at the ever changing existence. He uses images like, Just as the wind blow, there is no permanent wind. Consciousness arises, there is no permanent consciousness. Like the wind, just movement of air. Our thoughts, feelings, awareness are not fixed solid or lasting. The comes and go just like the waves in the ocean.' Quote from this video. If there was a button to stop the world, everything would freeze, and life would cease. Life exists thanks to impermanence. Everything is subject to birth, growth, decay and eventually cessation. Without it, a corn seed would forever remain just a seed, never grow into corn plant for us harvest to eat. If things were not impermanent, you will not see a baby grow up and achieving their magnificent goals. You will not develop love and kindness to your parents or fall in love with your love ones. A sick person can also heal, grow, or decay. Sickness is only natural. Death is very natural. We don't get beyond that. However, don't let death define you. Don't let pain defeat you. Impermanence is a medicine to heal or lead us to enlightenment. It helps us to learn to let go of our attachment, or we thought permanent self. Impermanence is the root of self transformation and our human revolution. Our attachment to impermanent things is primary source of suffering. When you cling to people possessions or circumstances, not letting go, believing them to be permanent and unchanging. You want to stay forever. We set ourselves up for failure, disappointment and distress. In Buddha's words, "All conditioned things are impermanent - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.” In Nichiren's words, 'How we can create eternal value in this fleeting existence.'
Have to admire the understanding of Buddhism enlightenment from this podcast. However one who wishes to attain enlightenment must have a solid awareness to be able to see the whole process of the impermanence in one's own mind once it started, continuation and especially when those emotions fading away. It would be quite amazed to learn that mind's attach element losing it's grip once that occurred. The sun would continue to shine as part of nature process without ME who shining the light. Meditation practicetioner needs to solidify one's own self awareness since it's the main key. Simple practice is keep repeating a couple of neutral words in one's own mind 24/7 even in your dream, neutral words can be Budd - Dho or Je- sus if you're Christian or any other words as your preference. It would take months on continuation before any change could occur, a more solid self controlled. Buddhist monk in Thailand.
The waves always coming and going but the water like self remains If you can't talked our of the reality of Your own experience u have much to learn u r doing it
I used to suffer from that too.And I still do occasionally.But when that happens I take a few minutes off and ask several questions from myself about fear.i acknowledge that it is there almost like a bad friend but don’t entertain or get carried away.Believe me it was horrible but when I deal with it or acknowledge but not entertain it , it tends to disappear on me and I hope it helps you too. ❤
“I shouldn’t have to fear anything” is a thought/feeling you have, but it’s not correct. Would you take the obstacles out of the path of the protagonist in your favorite story? No. So why would life be any different? We don’t choose our thoughts. We don’t control our minds. Everything is God’s will, including fear and mistakes, and that their God’s will doesn’t suddenly make them good, or suddenly make you like them. “Life is suffering” and what that really really means is it is moment after moment of sensations and thoughts we don’t choose (including fear and pain). As soon as you see you don’t choose whether emotional pain blooms in your body as fear or anxiety or guilt, you see you just have to feel it instead of trying to evade it, even if it’s unfounded.
To those who have time to philosophise and question about life are already privileged. Most of people who struggle and make ends meet don't have that luxury and privilege. They do the most dirty works. Remember, Buddha was once a prince in the Ashoka dynasty before he left his palace living. He was fortunate to have time to meditate and evangelise his learning after having tasted the priviledged life.
Okay, let's be clear about a few things. 1. Just because something is impermanent or ever-changing does not imply it does not exist. 2. It is not that Self does not exist, it is that Self cannot be found in form or concept. This is because it would be the Self that is beholding the form or concept. Looking for the true Self would be like looking in the world for the glasses you are wearing. You will never find the glasses in the world; yet they do exist. You cannot use the Buddha to seek the Buddha, as the saying goes. 3. Impermanence can only be perceived if there is a contrast medium, just as foreground cannot be perceived without background. Awareness is what is permanent and unchanging. 4. Buddha and Christ both had a teaching style where often the last piece of the puzzle is left up to you to work out. The advantage of this style is that if you complete the picture yourself, the understanding will be intimately understood rather than intellectually grasped. Enlightenment cannot be experienced as an intellectual understanding. To know and to know about are different things. When this teaching style is employed, it means you must sometimes take the step beyond what is presented to you as face value. Ironically, what is often seen as blasphemy or arrogance or pretense is in fact precisely what those great avatars were trying to get out of you.
@LostEverBG I am not a follower of anything. Subjective experience is the primary reference for reality. From this lifetime and before, awareness has never not been present. How could you possibly know that awareness is not permanent?
@@JustOneWillingSoul If you want to know about Buddhist understanding of awareness, check Maha tanha sankhaya Sutra. If everything is conditioned and impermanent, how can the witness be unconditioned and permanent? The sutra explains it.
@LostEverBG It's a reasoning error to assume everything is impermanent. Just because what is seen in thought and form is impermanent does not mean everything is, there is more to everything than thought and form. Sound can only be heard against silence; impermanence is understood as such by contrast to permanence. The witness is not formal. Emptiness, in Buddhic terms, would be eternal, unchanging.
@@JustOneWillingSoul You completely misunderstood shunyata. Shunyata ≠ Brahman. Shunyata = Conditioned Existence. Whatever arises conditionally, is emptiness. Whatever ceases conditionally, is emptiness. It is a negation of any svarupa lakshana, unlike what you think. And emptiness says that consciousness is conditioned. There is nothing like atma, it is nothing but a combination of 5 aggregates (thus causes and conditions), making it also empty.
PM, pls make a video which ellaborates "patisandhi vinnana", "vinnana". Many people assume that pattisandhi vinnana is the self(atta). What is the real meaning of anatta? Is it "No self" Or "impermanent self" Or impermanent vinanna? Or impermanent pattisandhi vinnana?
The questions seem to remain unanswered to me; it seems to be avoided instead. It matters not if it is a 'who' or a 'what', nor whether it is 'permanent' or 'temporary'. The rain rains on the plant creating the flower, but this is supposed to show awareness is not becoming aware of whatever it is that's aware ? The bubble in the stream exists, albeit temporarily, so how is this meant to deny any 'what' or 'who' counterpart, that should also exist if the comparison is to be valid (even if both the bubble and, whatever is aware, cease to exist at some point) ? I'm somewhat disappointed at the lack of explanation of what was initially asked.
Emptiness is like the screen you are watching. Anything which is the reality in samsara is playing on it. But the screen is always there(emptiness) . Turn off the screen(meditation), remove your cravings and consciousness comes through. Naturally u realize you're watching a tv that you have been caught in its illusion. Whatever plays on the screen never affects you the viewer.
And "who" is this to be "ignorant and not understanding reality". What Bhudda failed to clarify in his teaching is that the High Self, the image and likeness of God and in the concept of the unmanifest, not materialised and personified God, formless, eternal and atemporal, never born or dead, empty as a third dimension but capable of creating it is the one "who" "understand reality", and provided that is not an mere and ultimately inttelectual understanding (because in the beginning we need it as a start point), and ceases all ignorance by attaining Enlightenment. Most of time Bhudda's teaching seems nihilism for everything. Of course that personality is nothing and duality is an illusion as both finish by being impermant. Bhudda applies impermanence also for what is permanent and for me it seems a mistake. The permanent being as The Self manifest impermanence with all its illusory attributes. I still stick mostly with Vedas like for example Ramana Maharshi way of teaching about spirituality. Maybe is just a matter of didactics and they are speaking about the same REALITY but most of times I cannot see it on Budda's core teaching.
I agree. I think the Veda concept of Self/Atman is the same as the Awareness ascribed Buddhism. But in the Vedic teaching I see more purposeness in creating the illusory self, our egos, that can be dissolved or existent, but the underlying Self, Brahman, always exists and we do as That. Like you said, some conscious, purposeful action had to initiate/create what we now know as our "illusory" self, which in my philosophy means, the energy of Self/Brahman chooses to separate from Self, to create little Self, that can or cannot exist but can also create with the same power and have the same knowing/awareness of the Self behind it all. Having this Awareness with consciousness is what we are and only when we create a small self, do we recognize whatever temporarily existence we have apart from Self.
@@tomjiunta1580 It seems like Indian or Vedic system goes up to 8th Jhana. 9th Jhana is cessation of everything including consciousness itself. It seems like the ultimate step exists only in Buddhism. Even going to 8th Jhana can result in the creation of the universe again.. Because none of these states are permanent. 9th Jhana is blowing out the candle totally so that it can never start to burn again(Creating the whole creation again)
Dear friend, you are already on the right path of questioning. Most people, as in this video, are confusing the meaning of the teachings. Venkateraman (Ramana) said that "what is impermanent is never real. Only what is permanent is truly real". Buddha was talking often about the impermanence of life but also about the eternal soul. How would he know all his "previous incarnations" otherwise?! Eternal soul and true self one and the same, which is the substrate everything else is attached to. When we abide in our "true self", we discover that they are all talking about the same thing! Best wishes.
@@tomjiunta1580Dear friend, you are correct. It might be useful to know that the things that separate us from Brahman/Atman, is the illusion of Maya/Jiva (illusion of the mind/illusion of the body). This is creating the ego which is separating us from Atman and therefore from Brahman. All the best in life!
Thank you for sharing your insightful reflections! - Buddhism’s emphasis on impermanence (anicca) and non-self (anattā) can indeed seem nihilistic at first glance. However, the Buddha explicitly rejected nihilism, teaching a Middle Way between eternalism (belief in a permanent self) and annihilationism (denial of all meaning). The goal isn’t to negate reality but to see it clearly-free from clinging to illusions like a fixed “self” or inherent existence. Emptiness (śūnyatā) refers not to “nothingness” but to the interdependent, fluid nature of all phenomena. Nirvana, the unconditioned state beyond suffering, transcends concepts like existence/non-existence altogether. - Vedanta’s “High Self” (Brahman/Atman) and Buddhism’s non-self (anattā) represent two profound but distinct approaches to truth. Vedanta uses the concept of an eternal Self as a catalyst for realizing oneness with the divine, while Buddhism avoids metaphysical claims about a “self” to prevent attachment to ideas. Both traditions agree that the conventional ego is illusory, but Buddhism goes further by deconstructing even subtle notions of permanence. This isn’t a “failure to clarify” but a deliberate choice to prioritize direct insight over conceptual frameworks. - You’re right-Buddhism applies impermanence to all conditioned phenomena (including the ego and material world). However, it acknowledges the “unconditioned” (nirvana) as beyond concepts like permanence/impermanence. Vedanta’s “permanent” Self (Brahman) and Buddhism’s “unconditioned” nirvana may ultimately point to the same ineffable reality, but they use different language to avoid limiting it. The difference lies in method: Vedanta affirms the Self as a bridge to realization, while Buddhism uses negation to dismantle all conceptual anchors. - I agree that much of this comes down to teaching methods. Ramana Maharshi’s self-inquiry (“Who am I?”) and the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths are both skillful means tailored to different minds. Vedanta’s affirmative approach (“You are Brahman”) resonates deeply with some, while Buddhism’s negation (“No self, no essence”) helps others break free from attachment. Both paths aim to transcend intellectual understanding and realize a truth beyond words. In the end, whether these traditions describe the same “REALITY” is a beautiful mystery. What matters is that both have guided countless beings toward freedom from suffering. Your preference for Vedanta is completely valid-it reflects what resonates with your heart and mind. The diversity of spiritual paths is a testament to the richness of human experience.
But for awareness to be awareness, someone or something has to be aware, no? Buddha said the is no ego-self, the awareness that is free of illusion, is the God-Self that has no individuality, where we are One and there is only Love..
Dropping aspirations is freeing the weak and temporary brain from all the dukha of attachments. Let the open heart and open mind occupy being. The fungal network in earth's sod is the internet which travels with guts, and is free of personhood, it's a modem.
I feel like ur taking vedanta not buddisam. Vedanta said awareness allways there out of any conditions. But budda said even awareness is condition to feelings etc etc.
Your self is mutually arising like everything it does not make it any less real. It's a Koan you need to get past it. Enlightenment is when you see through it
Atma cannot be explained. So in Buddhas way he says no self meaning that which can’t be talked about, without giving preconceived notions of True Self. Remember Buddha held Rishis to the highest esteem.
The small and separate ego self (No-Self) cannot be enlightened but in reality there is only Self with a capital S and it is always enlightened. Enlightenment therefore requires the death of the ego. Enlightenment is not a personal experience because the Self is an impersonal spirit.
No permanent consciousness and impermanence of life are few of his teachings but he was also talking about the eternal soul and he saw all his "previous incarnations", how would that be in case of impermanence?! Ego is what gives us the illusion of the non existing permanent soul/self. Searching deeply, someone will find that everyone is talking about the same thing!
@JohnLamp-g5d The Buddha never said there was an immortal soul. Buddhism teaches there is no permanent soul. And Buddhism doesn't teach reincarnation. Rebirth and reincarnation are not the same. The 5 Aggregates are impermanent
@@fredatlas4396 If the soul mortal then who gets reborn? The impermanence is referred to the body and the mind, not the soul. There are many interpretations of the texts coming from different sources, though.
@@JohnLamp-g5d Acoording to Buddhist teachings there is know soul. There is know permanent self, no reincarnation. It's Hinduism that teaches about a soul that is reincarnated
I've yet to come across any quotes attributed to Buddha that suggests he taught the Self is an illusion. Seems to me the religion of Buddhism has been infiltrated by Advanta beliefs. I remember several years ago, whist a few years into the Eastern part of my spiritual journey, I decided to buy a copy of highly celebrated The Tibentan Book of Living and Dying. Was disappointed to discover it was just like the christian bible.
"No self" needs a better definition. Following the explanation, if there is no "I" at the core, why bother? Why attach to the idea of escaping suffering? It always changes in the long run anyway. What enlightenment can be achieved if there is no "self" to achieve it?
U can picture it like this , atleast from my understanding, A person , which is a compound of multiple elements connected together, this compound sees these elements as it's way of life and clings to them even tho they change in the cycle of impermence , however enlightenment is the understanding for that compound that it shud let go of those elements , and not react with any other elements around it , once that's understood this compound does not hold attachment and is free from the journey of suffering
Spot on! You hit the nail on the head! If there is no self, there is no existence, there is no body, there is no experience, and no one has any experience, which is ludicrous, right? Everything is anicca impermanent or, in other words, the nature of body, emotions, and mind is temporary and constantly changing, so nothing to cling to. When you were born, what were you thinking, nothing, no thing, no thinking of mind. The identification with the body and mind is a false self ego identification with the temporary. That which is permanent is consciousness, thou art that hence the maxim know thy self, the real self, permanent self, consciousness itself never changes, it observes all else that changes. So there is no I that becomes enlightened, for the consciousness is the light that illuminated all else that is and yet is not, all of existence is like the water flowing out of a tap or down a waterfall, tangible through perception yet intangible as a permanent object Unchanging. When you sit long enough, you the consciousness will experience bhang, the body as tiny wavelets of energy, kalapas, your body is experienced as the water in the waterfall, and constantly flowing of energy as the puncta the particles of subatomic particles, all that happens is the shift in perception from seeing the body, Sensations and phenomenon of existence as permanent to actually experience of them as impermanent constantly changing and the identification with the temporary ego attachment to them being permanent is dissolved, there is no enlightenment no awakening of the self of consciousness, but simply that one has shifted perception from the temporary to the permanent, enlightenment is the realisation that one is always the permanent Unchanging light of consciousness observing all else that changes, there is no I self to claim to be enlightened, hence the Zen saying, if you meet the buddha on the path kill him. So in essence you are right, there is nothing to do, and yet stopping doing requires the correct effort to sit still long enough to experience the reality as it is, that thou art consciousness which is the permanent self, as the false self of ego, mara, s disintegrated into nothing and only existed as long as the perception was identified with it as permanent when it was impermanent all a long, this craving and aversion to a permanent self, mind, body is the darkness of ignorance called ego mara, when sitting still long enough one experiences rama meaning bliss, but here lies the greatest deception most gurus fall into the trap of identification with the temporary impermanent bliss. If it arises, let it. If it goes, let it. There is nothing to hold onto, so therefore, one was and is always already enlightened, but when identification with temporary body mind is pretending not to be. Life is a stage, and each actor plays their part. But don't take my word for it, do not believe it, reject all beliefs all words, sit long enough to experience the reality as it is for yourself then it will be your own experience and no one else's experience or words. When enlightenment is realised through realising, one always was and always will be the light of consciousness, then study the Tao as for what to do while remaining in embodiment is a good recommendation.
@@johnbishop9000 What you write is wisdom. Out of respect for your message, I have tried to simplify it and fix sentence structure/grammar so that others can read it more easily - I hope you are ok with that... "If there is no self, there is no existence, there is no body, there is no experience, and no one has any experience, which is ludicrous, right? Everything is anicca/impermanent or, in other words, the nature of body, emotions, and mind is temporary and constantly changing, so there's nothing to cling to. When you were born, what were you thinking, nothing, no thing, no thinking of mind. The identification with the body and mind is a false self ego identification with the temporary. That which is permanent is consciousness 'thou art that', hence the maxim know thy self, the real self, permanent self... consciousness itself never changes, it observes all else that changes. So there is no I that becomes enlightened, for the consciousness is the light that illuminated all else that is and yet is not. When you sit long enough, you, the consciousness, will experience that there is no enlightenment or awakening of the self, but simply that one has shifted perception from the temporary to the permanent. Enlightenment is the realisation that one is always the permanent, unchanging light of consciousness observing all else that changes; there is no I self to claim to be enlightened. This craving and aversion to a believed permanent self, mind, or body is ignorance called ego. There is nothing to do, and yet... stopping doing requires the correct effort to sit still long enough to experience reality as it is... that thou art consciousness which is the permanent self. The false self of ego only existed as long as the perception was identified with it as permanent when it was impermanent all along. However, when one sits still long enough, one experiences bliss. Here lies the greatest deception most gurus fall into-the trap of identifying with this temporary, impermanent bliss. If it arises, let it. If it goes, let it. There is nothing to hold onto. Life is a stage, and each actor plays their part. But don't take my word for it, reject all beliefs, all words, and just sit long enough to experience reality as it is. Then it will be your own experience and no one else's experience or words... when enlightenment is realised through realising that one always was and always will be the light of consciousness.
From what I understand, the concept of no-self basically means that's no me,, no permanent me. Once we understand and get it... then we are enlightened but because we still cling to the idea of self by asking "if there's no-self, who get enlighten?" We still cling there is a self. That's why we are not enlighten... That's how I see it. Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu.
wow I knew nothing about buddhism, its absolutely useless information taught by some rich person that got bored from living the easy life? Pure futility.
This is all fine , but it doesnt explsin how the illusion of self originated . A Course In Miracles goes deeper , and explains that WE invented this self AND the world of form it seems to perceive , to hide from God ( the Oneness of all life ).. The ego self is kept in place by unconscious guilt and fear . To attain full enlightenment this guilt and fear must be healed, in order to know our innocence .
No, it is not 🤦♂️. Buddha says there is no self at all, there is no "one" self or "many" selves. Soul / Supersoul = Self. There is no self as per Buddhists. Stop comparing lowly made philosophies of Abrahamics with noble philosophies like that of Bauddha Siddhanta. If Buddha saw the rise of Islam, he'd refute it completely.
By nonsense do you mean without judgment of sensory perception? Loosing my sense of solid self I also find myself loosing my identity as a Buddhist. I now tell people, "I am not a Buddhist. I just practice Buddhism".
Sometimes its hard not to feel that way. After meditating for over 50 years, I finally had the experince of "True Self." the awareness behind it all. It was so freeing and peaceful, it all made sense for about 10 minutes. But now I have a bit more meaning when adding the Vedas to my Buddhist philosophy, because the Self behind it all, Brahman, is real and is part of who your small Self/Atman is. Drop that and live in the larger Self. This does exist and is who we are as One, but we allow ourselves to differeniate into small ego selves in order to enjoy our creative power and also know what it is we are, which we could not do, as the Source without😂 creating something separate, for a time to experience what it is we really are. Hope that makes sense.
The continuing confusion and arguing about “non-self” is an unnecessary distraction from the simple goal of Buddhism which is to eliminate “suffering” and find inner peace, in this lifetime. There are two important points about the notion of “non-self”: The first is “We”, meaning each of us as individuals, are always changing as new experiences shape the mind, consciousness, and perception (right or wrong), so in essence, there is no “permanent” self; but the individual self (the collection of all experiences) is real , albeit in the form of synaptic impulses. Whether it is part of a greater unknown “energy field” (such as Dark Energy) is not relevant the goal of eliminating suffering. The second, and more important meaning of “non-self” is to transform our focus in life from “pleasing” (pleasure) our selfish desires (cravings, attachment), and shift our thoughts and efforts towards helping others. This “generosity” (part of the Six Perfections), not only makes the world a better place, but liberates us from the constant desire to please the ego, which is the source of constant conflict and pain since there’s never enough.
“The one you are looking for, is the one who is looking.”
The longest sound a human can male is "M" the shortest sound a human can make is "D" the perfect balance between the "M" and the "D" is "I"
so enlightenment has nothing to do with sound,
Which means that Enlightenment has nothing to do with the cortices
@ You would know.
@@WoodstockG54 I do :)
"lets keep it between us"
@@KevinMannix-sf5zk What you require is a mind altering NDE. Once experienced, the you, you identify with will no longer be.
@@WoodstockG54 That's the first stage
To lose the thought process, to see that the words in our mind are the first false idol to fall,
But there is a "twist in the tail" of human consciousness
Biology she is far more clever than we at first realised, it probably took us hundreds of thousands of years to work out what she is up to , the tricks mummy is capable of
That's why we wrote the religions, to Echo the narrative , behind a façade
That's what drives everyone nuts in the path
The sudden understanding that nothing is as it seems
Buddhism teaching : emptiness= liberation= enlightenment = Nibanna ❤❤❤❤❤
@@lietjiemin667 That is only what you read, but inreality it has not yet happened to you! What is emptiness, liberation and enlightenment is only a thing in your mind! Before anything else, you must know who you really are, then a deeper enlightenment follows, then if you persist on your sadhana liberation follows.
Thank you for this wonderful video it's incredibly helpful towards my Mediation Studies and Investigations. Sadhu Sadhu 🙏😊
The discourse by Buddha himself in Paticasamupada sutta explains the dependent origination and the notion of Self and non self is avoided.. completely changed my understanding of Nature's Law
Great lesson
I have learnt a lot from this❤
Bravo!! Beautifully said🙏👍
Gratefull for your Dhamma dana continu the realities of the buddha teaching
Wonderfull!
The final realization that there is nobody to become enlightened or liberated is the Cosmic Joke preceding enlightenment. This is enlightened laughter where there is no one laughing in the absence of a subject and object. Laughing just happens on its own accord without a doer.
Enlightenment is just the Awareness of Primordial Awareness that is timeless and spaceless.
Freedom has always been Free and the simple realization of this Reality is enlightenment.
Our intrinsic Buddha Nature is always Here and Now and completely accessible in theNOW-ness of the Moment without a subject.
What Is, simply IS as pure IS-ness in the absence of a “me” as the “I-less I”.
Emptiness is Presence.
I refer to this stateless state as Sunyata Ananda or the Bliss of Emptiness and the Emptiness of Bliss.
Bodhi Svaha 🙏🏽
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I am aware of my awareness and surely not fixed
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There is no individual separate self ,,as life is one whole .
The entire message conveyed calls upon the "self" to do something, I contend that the first thing is the Grace of the SELF must initiate the quest to look. All efforts and outcomes are the activity of the SELF, my opinion.
Thank you!
Suttas did not say there is no self or there is a self. It says what we normally consider self or belonging to self are actually non self. The perception of non self is one of the 3 characteristics or openings into enlightenment. Cheers.
Actually the Mahayana sutras teach no self - period. Entities have no self-nature. Reality does not conform itself to the rules of human language. Realization sees through the illusion of "self" and "other". There are many here who are into Theravada, and even non-Buddhist Hindu teachings. Hence the confusion about the concept of "self". In the Mahayana there is no self.
@bobaldo2339 Mahayana and Tibetan are fake Buddhism because they developed more than 600 years and 1000 years respectively after Buddha. so they contain a lot of teachings which deviate from the original teaching of Buddha. Sad to see later practices deteriorate into superstition, relaxation of monks precepts, tantric, mantras etc. This greatly deviate from the cultivation of virtue, deep meditation and insight wisdom found in the original teachings. Cheers.
@@galaxymetta5974 Buddhism has evolved into a more effective vehicle for liberation.
That is the Mahayana.
Was Nagarjuna's works inline with Buddha's teachings? My friend the other was saying he was creating works which were directed at the monks who where deviating from Buddha's teachings and misinterpreting them.
Loved this video, and just subscribed!
Thank you so much ❤
Excellent video - many thanks!
thank you so much 🙏🙏
Self-discipline cures our body.
Deep concentration cures our mind.
Wisdom cures our behaviour.
Therefore, a person who practices Buddhism is wise in thought, speech and behaviour.
So how could such a person be unhappy?
Committing wrongdoings, being confused and remaining in ignorance are the three major problems of sentient beings in our modern world.
If sentient beings don't have these problems, there is no need for the Buddha's Teachings.
It is like a person is not ill, there is no need to Buddha to prescribe any medicine.
When beings are well, the teachings are unnecessary and introducing them might even lead to more issues.
This is similar to a healthy person taking medicine everyday and eventually falling ill.
The Buddha will teach when sentient beings are afflicted with these problems.
🙏🙏🙏 Amitabha Buddha
We don’t choose our thoughts. Nor how we feel about things. We don’t choose our will, since choosing will is just expressing will.
The same is true for God. This is unity (there’s no stuff at the bottom of atoms- everything is space/God), but nothing chooses. We express what our will is, in every moment.
Only by letting go on focusing and seeking can you find it in yourself and realise it is real and been there you been there all along.
Wether anything speaks to you at all depends on you.
Or as Feynman quoted Gibbons in his lecture notes on Physics "The efforts of teaching are rarely of much efficacy except in those favourable circumstances when they are almost superfluous. 50 years later just now I realised that's when I got enlightened without being aware of it. True virtue does not know itself as 1.
If you need to focus on awareness itself you stopped paying attention
just be there and pay attention
You cannot force it
Know Yourself Believe Yourself Discipline Yourself,Nothing belongs to you in this World.The last thing that leave the body is the Soul.Made it works before you passed away.That is The Purpose In Life.(Enlightenment.)
Buddha teaches that there is no individual soul or spirit , and Jesus teaches that bodies do not contain anything .
Bodies are part of the illusion of self.
Thank you very much for your video.
I love the way ypu describe the teaching styles as let each person take the final step in the journey, over the finish line, rather than trying to get people to understand it logically. It hs to be experienced. If you don't mind, I would like to use that teaching example in a book I am writing on this subject?
Yes, absolutely, you're welcome to use that teaching example in your book. I'm honored that it was helpful and inspiring to you. I wish you all the best with your writing!
Live from the space of open awareness. if you were never selfish or never wanting willing anything but pay attention and follow it's lead. You cannot want it. Let go of desire you can have it all
"There is no permanent self. Instead of focusing on who. The Buddha encouraged to look at the ever changing existence. He uses images like, Just as the wind blow, there is no permanent wind. Consciousness arises, there is no permanent consciousness. Like the wind, just movement of air. Our thoughts, feelings, awareness are not fixed solid or lasting. The comes and go just like the waves in the ocean.' Quote from this video.
If there was a button to stop the world, everything would freeze, and life would cease. Life exists thanks to impermanence.
Everything is subject to birth, growth, decay and eventually cessation. Without it, a corn seed would forever remain just a seed, never grow into corn plant for us harvest to eat. If things were not impermanent, you will not see a baby grow up and achieving their magnificent goals. You will not develop love and kindness to your parents or fall in love with your love ones. A sick person can also heal, grow, or decay. Sickness is only natural. Death is very natural. We don't get beyond that. However, don't let death define you. Don't let pain defeat you. Impermanence is a medicine to heal or lead us to enlightenment. It helps us to learn to let go of our attachment, or we thought permanent self.
Impermanence is the root of self transformation and our human revolution. Our attachment to impermanent things is primary source of suffering. When you cling to people possessions or circumstances, not letting go, believing them to be permanent and unchanging. You want to stay forever. We set ourselves up for failure, disappointment and distress. In Buddha's words, "All conditioned things are impermanent - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
In Nichiren's words, 'How we can create eternal value in this fleeting existence.'
Have to admire the understanding of Buddhism enlightenment from this podcast.
However one who wishes to attain enlightenment must have a solid awareness to be able to see the whole process of the impermanence in one's own mind once it started, continuation and especially when those emotions fading away.
It would be quite amazed to learn that mind's attach element losing it's grip once that occurred.
The sun would continue to shine as part of nature process without ME who shining the light.
Meditation practicetioner needs to solidify one's own self awareness since it's the main key.
Simple practice is keep repeating a couple of neutral words in one's own mind 24/7 even in your dream, neutral words can be Budd - Dho or Je- sus if you're Christian or any other words as your preference.
It would take months on continuation before any change could occur, a more solid self controlled.
Buddhist monk in Thailand.
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Try to say it all when you realize that your awareness is the you(r) self you can begin to live
The waves always coming and going but the water like self remains
If you can't talked our of the reality of Your own experience u have much to learn u r doing it
The Observer. Namaste ✨
I have a hard time dealing with fear. I shouldn’t have to fear anything. Fear grabs me that it almost paralyzes me. I don’t like that feeling.
I used to suffer from that too.And I still do occasionally.But when that happens I take a few minutes off and ask several questions from myself about fear.i acknowledge that it is there almost like a bad friend but don’t entertain or get carried away.Believe me it was horrible but when I deal with it or acknowledge but not entertain it , it tends to disappear on me and I hope it helps you too. ❤
“I shouldn’t have to fear anything” is a thought/feeling you have, but it’s not correct.
Would you take the obstacles out of the path of the protagonist in your favorite story? No. So why would life be any different?
We don’t choose our thoughts. We don’t control our minds. Everything is God’s will, including fear and mistakes, and that their God’s will doesn’t suddenly make them good, or suddenly make you like them.
“Life is suffering” and what that really really means is it is moment after moment of sensations and thoughts we don’t choose (including fear and pain). As soon as you see you don’t choose whether emotional pain blooms in your body as fear or anxiety or guilt, you see you just have to feel it instead of trying to evade it, even if it’s unfounded.
The notion of self in this mentally constructed world of the imagination is a dream avatar that we become addicted to - a projection.
A wave crests upon the shore- when it recedes it is no more.
To those who have time to philosophise and question about life are already privileged. Most of people who struggle and make ends meet don't have that luxury and privilege. They do the most dirty works. Remember, Buddha was once a prince in the Ashoka dynasty before he left his palace living. He was fortunate to have time to meditate and evangelise his learning after having tasted the priviledged life.
The realization that there is no self is enlightenment
@@TheWayofFairness that you be come self through the Other
No unchanging person means no person? I am an ever changing, eternal being like everyone else.
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Okay, let's be clear about a few things.
1. Just because something is impermanent or ever-changing does not imply it does not exist.
2. It is not that Self does not exist, it is that Self cannot be found in form or concept. This is because it would be the Self that is beholding the form or concept. Looking for the true Self would be like looking in the world for the glasses you are wearing. You will never find the glasses in the world; yet they do exist. You cannot use the Buddha to seek the Buddha, as the saying goes.
3. Impermanence can only be perceived if there is a contrast medium, just as foreground cannot be perceived without background. Awareness is what is permanent and unchanging.
4. Buddha and Christ both had a teaching style where often the last piece of the puzzle is left up to you to work out. The advantage of this style is that if you complete the picture yourself, the understanding will be intimately understood rather than intellectually grasped. Enlightenment cannot be experienced as an intellectual understanding. To know and to know about are different things. When this teaching style is employed, it means you must sometimes take the step beyond what is presented to you as face value. Ironically, what is often seen as blasphemy or arrogance or pretense is in fact precisely what those great avatars were trying to get out of you.
Awareness is not permanent. Buddhists are not followers of Kevaladvaita.
@LostEverBG I am not a follower of anything. Subjective experience is the primary reference for reality. From this lifetime and before, awareness has never not been present. How could you possibly know that awareness is not permanent?
@@JustOneWillingSoul If you want to know about Buddhist understanding of awareness, check Maha tanha sankhaya Sutra. If everything is conditioned and impermanent, how can the witness be unconditioned and permanent? The sutra explains it.
@LostEverBG It's a reasoning error to assume everything is impermanent. Just because what is seen in thought and form is impermanent does not mean everything is, there is more to everything than thought and form. Sound can only be heard against silence; impermanence is understood as such by contrast to permanence. The witness is not formal. Emptiness, in Buddhic terms, would be eternal, unchanging.
@@JustOneWillingSoul You completely misunderstood shunyata. Shunyata ≠ Brahman. Shunyata = Conditioned Existence. Whatever arises conditionally, is emptiness. Whatever ceases conditionally, is emptiness. It is a negation of any svarupa lakshana, unlike what you think. And emptiness says that consciousness is conditioned. There is nothing like atma, it is nothing but a combination of 5 aggregates (thus causes and conditions), making it also empty.
PM, pls make a video which ellaborates "patisandhi vinnana", "vinnana". Many people assume that pattisandhi vinnana is the self(atta). What is the real meaning of anatta? Is it "No self" Or "impermanent self" Or impermanent vinanna? Or impermanent pattisandhi vinnana?
The more you seek to learn the harder it gets
The questions seem to remain unanswered to me; it seems to be avoided instead. It matters not if it is a 'who' or a 'what', nor whether it is 'permanent' or 'temporary'. The rain rains on the plant creating the flower, but this is supposed to show awareness is not becoming aware of whatever it is that's aware ? The bubble in the stream exists, albeit temporarily, so how is this meant to deny any 'what' or 'who' counterpart, that should also exist if the comparison is to be valid (even if both the bubble and, whatever is aware, cease to exist at some point) ? I'm somewhat disappointed at the lack of explanation of what was initially asked.
Enlightenment is being enlightened of the self..
Buddhism is about self-enligtenment to reach Nirvana. It's not a religion but accepted as such.
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Concious is witness(observ
Emptiness is like the screen you are watching. Anything which is the reality in samsara is playing on it. But the screen is always there(emptiness) . Turn off the screen(meditation), remove your cravings and consciousness comes through. Naturally u realize you're watching a tv that you have been caught in its illusion. Whatever plays on the screen never affects you the viewer.
Those who realize there is no self.
Thank you RUclips !
The self attains, no self
And "who" is this to be "ignorant and not understanding reality". What Bhudda failed to clarify in his teaching is that the High Self, the image and likeness of God and in the concept of the unmanifest, not materialised and personified God, formless, eternal and atemporal, never born or dead, empty as a third dimension but capable of creating it is the one "who" "understand reality", and provided that is not an mere and ultimately inttelectual understanding (because in the beginning we need it as a start point), and ceases all ignorance by attaining Enlightenment. Most of time Bhudda's teaching seems nihilism for everything. Of course that personality is nothing and duality is an illusion as both finish by being impermant. Bhudda applies impermanence also for what is permanent and for me it seems a mistake. The permanent being as The Self manifest impermanence with all its illusory attributes. I still stick mostly with Vedas like for example Ramana Maharshi way of teaching about spirituality. Maybe is just a matter of didactics and they are speaking about the same REALITY but most of times I cannot see it on Budda's core teaching.
I agree. I think the Veda concept of Self/Atman is the same as the Awareness ascribed Buddhism. But in the Vedic teaching I see more purposeness in creating the illusory self, our egos, that can be dissolved or existent, but the underlying Self, Brahman, always exists and we do as That. Like you said, some conscious, purposeful action had to initiate/create what we now know as our "illusory" self, which in my philosophy means, the energy of Self/Brahman chooses to separate from Self, to create little Self, that can or cannot exist but can also create with the same power and have the same knowing/awareness of the Self behind it all. Having this Awareness with consciousness is what we are and only when we create a small self, do we recognize whatever temporarily existence we have apart from Self.
@@tomjiunta1580 It seems like Indian or Vedic system goes up to 8th Jhana. 9th Jhana is cessation of everything including consciousness itself.
It seems like the ultimate step exists only in Buddhism.
Even going to 8th Jhana can result in the creation of the universe again..
Because none of these states are permanent.
9th Jhana is blowing out the candle totally so that it can never start to burn again(Creating the whole creation again)
Dear friend, you are already on the right path of questioning. Most people, as in this video, are confusing the meaning of the teachings. Venkateraman (Ramana) said that "what is impermanent is never real. Only what is permanent is truly real". Buddha was talking often about the impermanence of life but also about the eternal soul. How would he know all his "previous incarnations" otherwise?! Eternal soul and true self one and the same, which is the substrate everything else is attached to. When we abide in our "true self", we discover that they are all talking about the same thing! Best wishes.
@@tomjiunta1580Dear friend, you are correct. It might be useful to know that the things that separate us from Brahman/Atman, is the illusion of Maya/Jiva (illusion of the mind/illusion of the body). This is creating the ego which is separating us from Atman and therefore from Brahman. All the best in life!
Thank you for sharing your insightful reflections!
- Buddhism’s emphasis on impermanence (anicca) and non-self (anattā) can indeed seem nihilistic at first glance. However, the Buddha explicitly rejected nihilism, teaching a Middle Way between eternalism (belief in a permanent self) and annihilationism (denial of all meaning). The goal isn’t to negate reality but to see it clearly-free from clinging to illusions like a fixed “self” or inherent existence. Emptiness (śūnyatā) refers not to “nothingness” but to the interdependent, fluid nature of all phenomena. Nirvana, the unconditioned state beyond suffering, transcends concepts like existence/non-existence altogether.
- Vedanta’s “High Self” (Brahman/Atman) and Buddhism’s non-self (anattā) represent two profound but distinct approaches to truth. Vedanta uses the concept of an eternal Self as a catalyst for realizing oneness with the divine, while Buddhism avoids metaphysical claims about a “self” to prevent attachment to ideas. Both traditions agree that the conventional ego is illusory, but Buddhism goes further by deconstructing even subtle notions of permanence. This isn’t a “failure to clarify” but a deliberate choice to prioritize direct insight over conceptual frameworks.
- You’re right-Buddhism applies impermanence to all conditioned phenomena (including the ego and material world). However, it acknowledges the “unconditioned” (nirvana) as beyond concepts like permanence/impermanence. Vedanta’s “permanent” Self (Brahman) and Buddhism’s “unconditioned” nirvana may ultimately point to the same ineffable reality, but they use different language to avoid limiting it. The difference lies in method: Vedanta affirms the Self as a bridge to realization, while Buddhism uses negation to dismantle all conceptual anchors.
- I agree that much of this comes down to teaching methods. Ramana Maharshi’s self-inquiry (“Who am I?”) and the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths are both skillful means tailored to different minds. Vedanta’s affirmative approach (“You are Brahman”) resonates deeply with some, while Buddhism’s negation (“No self, no essence”) helps others break free from attachment. Both paths aim to transcend intellectual understanding and realize a truth beyond words.
In the end, whether these traditions describe the same “REALITY” is a beautiful mystery. What matters is that both have guided countless beings toward freedom from suffering. Your preference for Vedanta is completely valid-it reflects what resonates with your heart and mind. The diversity of spiritual paths is a testament to the richness of human experience.
who is the we that looks at the nature of our thoughts?
That is a koan.
14:17 I’m from Vietnam, and which beloved country are you from? Could you comment here so we can all share and connect? 😊
I did a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh many years ago and it was transformative.
But for awareness to be awareness, someone or something has to be aware, no? Buddha said the is no ego-self, the awareness that is free of illusion, is the God-Self that has no individuality, where we are One and there is only Love..
Dropping aspirations is freeing the weak and temporary brain from all the dukha of attachments. Let the open heart and open mind occupy being. The fungal network in earth's sod is the internet which travels with guts, and is free of personhood, it's a modem.
I feel like ur taking vedanta not buddisam. Vedanta said awareness allways there out of any conditions. But budda said even awareness is condition to feelings etc etc.
Your self is mutually arising like everything it does not make it any less real. It's a Koan you need to get past it. Enlightenment is when you see through it
Atma cannot be explained. So in Buddhas way he says no self meaning that which can’t be talked about, without giving preconceived notions of True Self. Remember Buddha held Rishis to the highest esteem.
The small and separate ego self (No-Self) cannot be enlightened but in reality there is only Self with a capital S and it is always enlightened. Enlightenment therefore requires the death of the ego. Enlightenment is not a personal experience because the Self is an impersonal spirit.
The consciousness ?
No permanent self and no permanent consciousness according to the Buddha consciousness is part of the 5 aggregates
No permanent consciousness and impermanence of life are few of his teachings but he was also talking about the eternal soul and he saw all his "previous incarnations", how would that be in case of impermanence?! Ego is what gives us the illusion of the non existing permanent soul/self. Searching deeply, someone will find that everyone is talking about the same thing!
@JohnLamp-g5d The Buddha never said there was an immortal soul. Buddhism teaches there is no permanent soul. And Buddhism doesn't teach reincarnation. Rebirth and reincarnation are not the same. The 5 Aggregates are impermanent
@@fredatlas4396 If the soul mortal then who gets reborn? The impermanence is referred to the body and the mind, not the soul. There are many interpretations of the texts coming from different sources, though.
@@JohnLamp-g5d Acoording to Buddhist teachings there is know soul. There is know permanent self, no reincarnation. It's Hinduism that teaches about a soul that is reincarnated
Awareness is impermanent?
I've yet to come across any quotes attributed to Buddha that suggests he taught the Self is an illusion.
Seems to me the religion of Buddhism has been infiltrated by Advanta beliefs.
I remember several years ago, whist a few years into the Eastern part of my spiritual journey, I decided to buy a copy of highly celebrated The Tibentan Book of Living and Dying. Was disappointed to discover it was just like the christian bible.
DNA program is self or operating system of human, process of subconscious mind enlightens
"No self" needs a better definition. Following the explanation, if there is no "I" at the core, why bother? Why attach to the idea of escaping suffering? It always changes in the long run anyway. What enlightenment can be achieved if there is no "self" to achieve it?
U can picture it like this , atleast from my understanding, A person , which is a compound of multiple elements connected together, this compound sees these elements as it's way of life and clings to them even tho they change in the cycle of impermence , however enlightenment is the understanding for that compound that it shud let go of those elements , and not react with any other elements around it , once that's understood this compound does not hold attachment and is free from the journey of suffering
Spot on! You hit the nail on the head! If there is no self, there is no existence, there is no body, there is no experience, and no one has any experience, which is ludicrous, right? Everything is anicca impermanent or, in other words, the nature of body, emotions, and mind is temporary and constantly changing, so nothing to cling to. When you were born, what were you thinking, nothing, no thing, no thinking of mind. The identification with the body and mind is a false self ego identification with the temporary. That which is permanent is consciousness, thou art that hence the maxim know thy self, the real self, permanent self, consciousness itself never changes, it observes all else that changes. So there is no I that becomes enlightened, for the consciousness is the light that illuminated all else that is and yet is not, all of existence is like the water flowing out of a tap or down a waterfall, tangible through perception yet intangible as a permanent object Unchanging.
When you sit long enough, you the consciousness will experience bhang, the body as tiny wavelets of energy, kalapas, your body is experienced as the water in the waterfall, and constantly flowing of energy as the puncta the particles of subatomic particles, all that happens is the shift in perception from seeing the body, Sensations and phenomenon of existence as permanent to actually experience of them as impermanent constantly changing and the identification with the temporary ego attachment to them being permanent is dissolved, there is no enlightenment no awakening of the self of consciousness, but simply that one has shifted perception from the temporary to the permanent, enlightenment is the realisation that one is always the permanent Unchanging light of consciousness observing all else that changes, there is no I self to claim to be enlightened, hence the Zen saying, if you meet the buddha on the path kill him. So in essence you are right, there is nothing to do, and yet stopping doing requires the correct effort to sit still long enough to experience the reality as it is, that thou art consciousness which is the permanent self, as the false self of ego, mara, s disintegrated into nothing and only existed as long as the perception was identified with it as permanent when it was impermanent all a long, this craving and aversion to a permanent self, mind, body is the darkness of ignorance called ego mara, when sitting still long enough one experiences rama meaning bliss, but here lies the greatest deception most gurus fall into the trap of identification with the temporary impermanent bliss. If it arises, let it. If it goes, let it. There is nothing to hold onto, so therefore, one was and is always already enlightened, but when identification with temporary body mind is pretending not to be. Life is a stage, and each actor plays their part. But don't take my word for it, do not believe it, reject all beliefs all words, sit long enough to experience the reality as it is for yourself then it will be your own experience and no one else's experience or words. When enlightenment is realised through realising, one always was and always will be the light of consciousness, then study the Tao as for what to do while remaining in embodiment is a good recommendation.
Agreed
@@johnbishop9000 What you write is wisdom. Out of respect for your message, I have tried to simplify it and fix sentence structure/grammar so that others can read it more easily - I hope you are ok with that...
"If there is no self, there is no existence, there is no body, there is no experience, and no one has any experience, which is ludicrous, right? Everything is anicca/impermanent or, in other words, the nature of body, emotions, and mind is temporary and constantly changing, so there's nothing to cling to. When you were born, what were you thinking, nothing, no thing, no thinking of mind.
The identification with the body and mind is a false self ego identification with the temporary.
That which is permanent is consciousness 'thou art that', hence the maxim know thy self, the real self, permanent self... consciousness itself never changes, it observes all else that changes.
So there is no I that becomes enlightened, for the consciousness is the light that illuminated all else that is and yet is not.
When you sit long enough, you, the consciousness, will experience that there is no enlightenment or awakening of the self, but simply that one has shifted perception from the temporary to the permanent. Enlightenment is the realisation that one is always the permanent, unchanging light of consciousness observing all else that changes; there is no I self to claim to be enlightened. This craving and aversion to a believed permanent self, mind, or body is ignorance called ego.
There is nothing to do, and yet... stopping doing requires the correct effort to sit still long enough to experience reality as it is... that thou art consciousness which is the permanent self. The false self of ego only existed as long as the perception was identified with it as permanent when it was impermanent all along.
However, when one sits still long enough, one experiences bliss. Here lies the greatest deception most gurus fall into-the trap of identifying with this temporary, impermanent bliss. If it arises, let it. If it goes, let it. There is nothing to hold onto.
Life is a stage, and each actor plays their part. But don't take my word for it, reject all beliefs, all words, and just sit long enough to experience reality as it is. Then it will be your own experience and no one else's experience or words... when enlightenment is realised through realising that one always was and always will be the light of consciousness.
From what I understand, the concept of no-self basically means that's no me,, no permanent me. Once we understand and get it... then we are enlightened but because we still cling to the idea of self by asking "if there's no-self, who get enlighten?" We still cling there is a self. That's why we are not enlighten... That's how I see it. Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu.
WHO am i ? Before some body borned ? After borned,call name mr A,B,C,nowadays later & Reborn Reincarnated again,where is final destination?
Avidya.
Yet the world is the same illusion as the false ego self .
It is actually a dream of reality .
that background music is really annoying
ONLY IF
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No soul inside the lbody .Life is the stream of consciousness.
Very beautiful ❤☺️🥰❤️🔥🍃🌟💫✨⭐💚🩷💜🌸🌻🌼
wow I knew nothing about buddhism, its absolutely useless information taught by some rich person that got bored from living the easy life? Pure futility.
My awareness is not pure or permanent
This is all fine , but it doesnt explsin how the illusion of self originated .
A Course In Miracles goes deeper , and explains that WE invented this self AND the world of form it seems to perceive , to hide from God ( the Oneness of all life )..
The ego self is kept in place by unconscious guilt and fear .
To attain full enlightenment this guilt and fear must be healed, in order to know our innocence .
To be enlightened is to find buddha, finding it to be the self with no-self nature.
this is the same as lailahailallah, no self except him the only self the only one exist
No, it is not 🤦♂️. Buddha says there is no self at all, there is no "one" self or "many" selves. Soul / Supersoul = Self. There is no self as per Buddhists. Stop comparing lowly made philosophies of Abrahamics with noble philosophies like that of Bauddha Siddhanta. If Buddha saw the rise of Islam, he'd refute it completely.
It's your alter ego that gets enlightened like Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde.
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theres no self theres only the absolute manisfesting his word "self"..
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Peeling onions
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if there were no self there would be no enlightenment,
I used to be Buddhist Then I realized, Just recently that it's all nonsense
By nonsense do you mean without judgment of sensory perception? Loosing my sense of solid self I also find myself loosing my identity as a Buddhist. I now tell people, "I am not a Buddhist. I just practice Buddhism".
Sometimes its hard not to feel that way. After meditating for over 50 years, I finally had the experince of "True Self." the awareness behind it all. It was so freeing and peaceful, it all made sense for about 10 minutes. But now I have a bit more meaning when adding the Vedas to my Buddhist philosophy, because the Self behind it all, Brahman, is real and is part of who your small Self/Atman is. Drop that and live in the larger Self. This does exist and is who we are as One, but we allow ourselves to differeniate into small ego selves in order to enjoy our creative power and also know what it is we are, which we could not do, as the Source without😂 creating something separate, for a time to experience what it is we really are. Hope that makes sense.
The continuing confusion and arguing about “non-self” is an unnecessary distraction from the simple goal of Buddhism which is to eliminate “suffering” and find inner peace, in this lifetime.
There are two important points about the notion of “non-self”:
The first is “We”, meaning each of us as individuals, are always changing as new experiences shape the mind, consciousness, and perception (right or wrong), so in essence, there is no “permanent” self; but the individual self (the collection of all experiences) is real , albeit in the form of synaptic impulses. Whether it is part of a greater unknown “energy field” (such as Dark Energy) is not relevant the goal of eliminating suffering.
The second, and more important meaning of “non-self” is to transform our focus in life from “pleasing” (pleasure) our selfish desires (cravings, attachment), and shift our thoughts and efforts towards helping others. This “generosity” (part of the Six Perfections), not only makes the world a better place, but liberates us from the constant desire to please the ego, which is the source of constant conflict and pain since there’s never enough.
Here "self" means "Ego", false Deceptive Ego.
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