Search results for: "Not-self (anatta)"

1. Play AudioThe Three Perceptions as Tools
    … The perceptions are inconstancy, anicca, stress or suffering, dukkha, and not-self, anattā. Sometimes you hear them referred to as three characteristics, but the Buddha himself never referred to them in that way. He was less interested in looking at the characteristics of what things are, or in making statements about reality out there, and was more interested in developing perceptions that will have … 
2. Play AudioNot-self, Not No Self
    … The problem is that sometimes, when you read in the Buddha’s teachings, you come across a teaching on not-self, anattā. Some people interpret that as meaning, “There is no self.” That, of course, that raises the question, “If that’s the case, then who’s meditating? Who’s going to benefit? Who’s watching?” But it’s important to understand, from the … 
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