Search results for: "Non-self"

  1. Focus on the Precepts
     … Then you apply the perceptions of inconstancy, stress, and non-self to those actions and their results, because the duty with regard to those five clinging-aggregates is to comprehend them. To comprehend them means to understand them to the point where you have no passion, aversion, or delusion around them, and you comprehend them through applying these perceptions. The perceptions are actions—they … 
  2. The End of Uncertainty
     … To what extent is the non-self teaching skillful? Where is it not skillful? Those are the questions he would have you look at, not the question of whether there is or is not a self. There are a lot of things that could be true, but this may not be the right time to think about those things. The Buddha has a teaching … 
  3. In Training
     … I was going to stick with it.” But, if you can just see it as an event and can see that it’s not worth it—that’s a lot of what the teaching on non-self is, it’s a value judgment—then you can let go of it. You can step back and say, “I have the choice of identifying with this … 
  4. Mindfulness Aims at Concentration
     … And although you do apply the different perceptions of inconstancy, stress, and non-self at different stages in the path, you apply them in different ways—and certainly not in ways to destroy your concentration before you’ve actually mastered it. So have a sense of how the different parts of the path fit together. After all, as the Buddha said, to develop the … 
  5. Thinking About Rebirth
     … It was an unskillful way of defining self and an unskillful way of thinking about non-self. When you’re praised, you have to remember to ask yourself: Why do people praise you? Because they want to encourage you in the actions you’re doing. On the one hand, you have to look to see: Is this praise really worthwhile? What are they want … 
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