The 3 Characteristics
A- Impermanence, Suffering, Non-Self
23/04/2010 19:10
"What do you think, monks — Is form permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, lord."
"And is that which is impermanent happiness or suffering?"
"Suffering, lord."
"And is it fitting to regard what is impermant, suffering, subject to change as: 'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I...
B- 20 Kinds of View of a Self
23/06/2010 21:11
"An uninstructed worldling — who has no regard for noble ones, is unskilled or undisciplined in their Dhamma; who has no regard for persons of integrity, is unskilled and undisciplined in their Dhamma — assumes form to be the self, or the self as possessing form, or form as in the self, ...
C- You are not there
02/10/2010 11:56
(...) When for you, Bāhiya, there will be only the seen in the seen, only the heard in the heard, only the sensed in the sensed, only the cognized in the cognized, then, Bahiya, there is no you in terms of that. When there is no you in terms of that, you are not there. When you are not...
D- Empty is the World
01/10/2010 13:18
Insofar as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ananda, that the world is empty. And what is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self?
The eye is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self. Forms... Eye-consciousness... ...
E- No substance in the Five Aggregates
23/09/2010 16:14
Monks, suppose that a great lump of foam were floating down this Ganges River, and a man with good sight were to see it, observe it, and carefully examine it. To him — seeing it, observing it, and carefully examining it — it would appear void, hollow, without substance: for what...