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Mateos replied to the topic No-self in the forum Principles of Dharma 6 years, 7 months ago
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]
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Mateos started the topic Milestone for Stage 4 in the forum Meditation 7 years ago
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]
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Mateos started the topic No-self in the forum Principles of Dharma 7 years ago
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]
