The Power of Not-Self (Anatta): How Letting Go Leads to Greater Happiness
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Anatta in buddhism: The Power of Not-Self - How Letting Go Leads to Greater Happiness.
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Over the past three podcast episodes, we've been talking about a skillful perception of self. Today's episode and the next episode, we'll be talking about the skillful perception of not-self.
These two perceptions actually go together, because when you develop healthy self perceptions, they help to ensure that you use not-self perceptions in a healthy and mature way. You're not depriving yourself of your means for finding happiness. You're actually adding a new set of strategies that can help you find greater happiness. You realize that certain things lie beyond your control and that through accepting that fact, and letting go of your identification with those things, you can find happiness more easily and effectively.
As the Buddha indicated in the passage we ended with the previous podcast episode, we already have experience in applying the perception of not-self to everyday experience. If you see people burning leaves and twigs, and you know that those leaves and twigs don't belong to you, you don't get upset. In fact, if you think back to your childhood, you realize that the perception of not-self is something you've been developing all along, and for this very reason: It aids in your pursuit of happiness. The times when you learned that something was not under your control and you accepted the fact that it was futile to try to control it: That enabled you to let it go as not-self, as not yours, so that you could focus your efforts in areas where you could exert control. For example, if one of your toys got broken and couldn't be fixed, you learned that you could be happier if you stopped carrying it around, and instead focused your attention on the toys that were still in good-enough shape to play with.
In this way the perception of not-self is the other side of the coin of the perception of self. Once you define self, you draw a boundary around self; what lies outside of that boundary is not-self. If you do this skillfully, it can focus your attention on the areas where your efforts can bear fruit, and can help you avoid trying to control things that you can't.
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The Buddha's Teachings must put into use into our daily lives, then one will enjoy well-being, happiness in family and smoothness in work.
Follow the Buddha's Teachings, our life will be enhanced and our destiny will change.
Ultimately the Buddha's Teachings lead us to attain rebirth into Western Pure Land and become a Buddha.
These are some of the current instant benefits.
Buddhists scholars or Buddhists who don't put their learnings into use, they're similar to a person reading the menu display by the window at the restaurant.
How can one grasps the flavour of the foods if one don't get to taste them?
🙏🙏🙏Amituofo
*What's the truth about phenomena?*
The Diamond Sutra said : all phenomena are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble or a shadow.
Like dewdrops, lightning flash or an echo in the mountains.
All phenomena are empty in nature.
Knowing existence is "Emptiness" that's why the Buddha told us not have attachments to any of them.
We are not here to indulge in the existence.
We are here to learn about the non-existent.
Existence and non-existent are One, not two.
Existence is for the purpose of educating others.
Without an existence, it will be impossible to teach others.
Learning Buddhism is to learn the truth and the benefits of non-existent.
Learn what can't be known by others.
Hear what can't be heard by others. See what can't be seen by others.
It's learning our innate true wisdom.
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