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Friends:

 

        Neither Agent nor Actor, but only Impersonal  Processes!

 

        Question: Who is the Creator? Answer: Nobody is the Creator of anything!
        Q: What then, is creating? A: Ignorance and Craving is creating!  
        Q: What is ignorance & craving creating
? A: Ignorance & craving creates Suffering!

 

        Question: Who Perceives? Answer: Nobody perceives anything!
        Q: What then, is perceiving
? A: The Perception process itself perceives!
        Q: What does perception perceive
? A: Forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touches & thoughts!

 

        Question: Who Feels? Answer: Nobody Feels anything!
        Q: What then, is feeling
? A: The process of Feeling itself feels!
        Q: What do Feeling feel
? A: Feeling feels pleasure, pain and indifference!  

 

        Question: Who is the Knower? Answer: Nobody is the Knower of anything!
        Q: What then, is Knowing
? A: The state of Knowledge itself knows!
        Q: What is knowledge knowing
? A: Knowledge knows: Such is Pain,
             Such is the Cause of Pain,
Such is the End of Pain, and the Way to End all Pain!

 

This core Buddhist doctrine of Anatta means:
There is no 'Self' in here...
There is no 'Substance' out there...
Impersonal & void are all states & phenomena!
Ownerlessness is a universal characteristic of being!
Unsubstantiality is a universal characteristic of matter!

 


No-Self = Internal Impersonality!

The best way to comprehend No-Self (anatta) is to begin
with observing and reflecting on Impermanence (anicca) and
Suffering (dukkha). Then eventually one comes to understand:
Whatever is always otherwise and never the same, never identical cannot
ever be an identity, a self...
Whatever is always ultimately suffering cannot be under the control of a self,
since if it were, then this self would by this control change it into something
pleasant and happy. But no self can do that, since it is not in full control.
If a self is not in control of even itself (fully autonomic) it cannot be a true self,
but just conditions that plays out their cause and effects...

 

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

 


No-Substance = External Unsubstantiality!

 

The Ego Tunnel - Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger TED video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFjY1fAcESs

 

  Nobody home: Empty village!


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