Dharma Treasure Community | Mateos | Activity http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/mateos/activity/ Activity feed for Mateos. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 374755f080c83ecb173eed69d823c417 Mateos replied to the topic No-self in the forum Principles of Dharma http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/no-self/#post-2189 Sun, 03 Sep 2017 11:04:55 +0000 Thanks for you reply – I like the way you describe emptiness in this quite tangible way. And it is the answer to my question, I guess. I am still presupposing a self of some sort, when I ask, why the mind does not optimize for ‘its’ five aggregates. True No-self would mean there is nobody optimizing for pleasure or avoiding pain. Wisdom becomes…[Read more]

]]> 2408fe82934890e9dddb124b4d9671d3 Mateos started the topic Milestone for Stage 4 in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/milestone-for-stage-4 Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:52:29 +0000 In TMI, Culadasa and his co-authors state that Stage 4 has been passed once gross distractions are absent throughout the meditation session. I am wondering how strictly this is meant. Is it advised to stick to Stage 4 practice and not start the body scanning if within an hour of meditation, I usually have a few gross distractions between stretches…[Read more]

]]> 9e8d3adf99249349e6b8f5a48222e8d9 Mateos started the topic No-self in the forum Principles of Dharma http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/no-self Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:36:57 +0000 First of all, thank you very much for this forum – it is very helpful!

My question is on the intellectual understanding of No-self. Here is my admittedly very basic understanding, from which my question arises:
– We are just the five aggregates
– Everything, incl. our five aggreagtes, arises and passes away causally conditioned, and the whole of…[Read more]

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