Friends:
All is Empty of any
Self, Ego, I, Me, & Identical Identity!
Once the Venerable Ananda
approached the Blessed One and asked him:
Venerable Sir, it is said: Empty is the
world, empty is the world...
In what way, Venerable Sir, is it, that this world is Empty?
It is, Ananda, because it is empty of a self and of what belongs to a self,
that it is said, the world is empty...
And what is it, which is empty of any self and of what belongs to a self?
The eye, all forms, visual consciousness, eye-contact and all the feelings
arised caused by eye-contact, are empty of any self, and empty of what
belongs to a self...
The ear, all sounds, auditory consciousness, ear-contact, and all feelings
arised caused by ear-contact, are empty of any self, and empty of what
belongs to a self...
The nose, all smells, olfactory consciousness, nose-contact, feeling arised
from smelled contact, the tongue, all flavours, all gustatory consciousness,
tongue-contact, all feeling arised by tasting, the body, all forms of touch,
all tactile consciousness, body-contact, all feelings arised caused by body
contact, that too is empty of any self, and of what belongs to any self...
The mind is empty of any self. All thoughts & ideas are empty of any self.
Mental consciousness is empty of any self. Mental-contact is empty of self.
Whatever feeling arised caused by any mental-contact, that too is empty
of any self, and of what belongs to any self...
It is, Ananda, because all this is empty of any self & of what belongs to any
even assumed made-up concept of self, that it is said: Empty is this world...
An inflated void is any concept of "I",
"Me", "Mine" & "Self"
More on the
ultra-light Selfless Anti-Egoism Anattā = No-Self:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Empty_of_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Egoless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Double_Problem.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm
Though
outwardly different, are all beings internally empty of any same self!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. Book IV
[54]
Section 35: On The 6 Senses. Empty is the World:
85.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
EGO Empty!
Updated:
22 Nov 2009
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Empty_of_What.htm