Friends
Impersonal, selfless, coreless, ownerless
and
without ego
are all
phenomena:
There exists no unchanging, same, identical identity such as 'I, Me, My-self, My
Ego, My Personality'!
There exist momentary states of internal
form, feeling, perception, construction, and consciousness.
These five internal clusters of
clinging are always changing, becoming otherwise, and never the same!
There exist no unchanging, same, identical identities such as 'They, We,
Them-selves, these Personalities'!
There exist momentary states of external form, feeling, perception, construction, and consciousness.
These five external clusters of
clinging are always changing, becoming otherwise, and never the same!
The notion: 'I Am'
is false! There is a process of ever renewed becoming: The
"Am"
is therefore OK!
However the pointing reference "I" is
without a referent! It is lacking a real object & points nowhere!
Egoism is the assumed belief in an unverifiable unchanging core substance
residing somewhere inside
all beings as a permanent entity, which is the fictitious basis of the 'self, ego,
person, I, me, U, We' etc!
However much one falls in love with this made-up 'idea,' it remains not to be seen
or ever demonstrated!
Though non-existent this purely mental construct is nevertheless quite
effective as conflict-starter!
This fake 'king in the inner castle', is
tenaciously defended & gratified, even when he is not really there!
How comic! How tragic! How tricky! How difficult to see! How precious to know!
How releasing of all!
More on this
counterintuitive selflessness (No-Self = Anattā):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Anatta_Doctrine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
=
The Blessed Buddha
once emphasized:
Blissful is solitude for one who is content, learned & who see the True Dhamma.
More blissful is complete harmlessness towards all beings without exception.
Even further blissful is full freedom from any sensual urge whatsoever.
Yet, the supreme bliss, is the elimination of the abysmal conceit “I am”!’
Udana – Inspiration: II – 1
The assumed 'Self' restricts itself...
Ego is Not!
Updated:
25 October 2010 http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/We_Are_Not.htm