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Imploding Vacuum Personality: Void of Self!

The Blessed Buddha explained the flowing transience of existence as void:

 

Suppose a man with good sight observed the many bubbles on the Ganges
river as they drifted along, by carefully watching and examining them all.
Then after he had carefully examined them, they would appear to him as
empty, evanescent, and unsubstantial. In exactly the same way does the
Bhikkhu observe all the material phenomena, all feelings, all perceptions,
all mental constructions, & all states of consciousness, whether they be
past, present, or future, far or near. By carefully watching, analysing &
examining them all, they appear to him as empty, void, & without a self...
                                                                     
Source (edited extract) SN 22:95
 

Comment:
If feeling a bit nausea or dizziness or fear, when rigorously attempting
to comprehend egolessness, then one is going in the right direction...
Worth noticing is that one cannot ever loose a self that never was there!
In the first place...

For more on this universality of selfless impersonality (anatta) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Anatta_Doctrine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm

 

    Ownerlessness is a universal characteristic of being!

 


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