Anatta = No-Self... A Dynamic Process rather than a Static Entity !

Friend(s):

The ever Drifting Impersonal Round of Samsara:
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There is no entity: no 'being' exists ...
There is only a process of becoming: moment after moment.
Only that which IS the SAME, can cease to BE & re-arise...
But such Static Existence cannot be observed anywhere...
Even the stone always changes a little and become otherwise.
In this ever transient Process of Change, where there is no
'being', the question of 'next-being' cease to be relevant...
The anagami-non-returner is just a Continuation of that process,
like the old man is a Continuation of the baby he once was...

Example: The baby grows & ages into a 80 years Old man:
Is this old man the same or another, than that baby ?
Neither actually ..., but the continuation of a process, that
both in the baby and the old man continues for every moment.
No 'identity' is the 'same' & 'identical' only the empty label &
pointer of 'Name' & 'Designation' remains the 'same'...
Neither 'the baby' nor the 'old man' have ever really
Existed as stable & unchanging entities "being the same"
even for two consecutive moments. So how can the 'old man'
possibly ever be the 'same personal identity of being = soul!'
when transmigrating at the moment of death ???

All is ever new, transient, passing, otherwise & different.
If they ask you: Who are You ?
(In the Hidden Assuming a stable & same identity!!!)
one should answer:
"Something else...!!!"

The Blessed Buddha cuts it out in neon:

‘Whenever touched by pleasure or pain, whether in town or in forest,
do never assign it to any ‘self’, neither to any ‘other’,
since contacts can only afflict the 5 clusters of clinging !
What can contacts touch & affect in one not clinging ?’
-- Udana – Inspiration: II – 4

About the mental state of assuming a 'self':

‘First it appeared to be, then it disappeared.
What was not apparent, became apparent.
Yet it never remained, nor will it become,
neither is it to be known now !’
-- Udana – Inspiration: VI - 3


All this "I"-dentification is founded on the key conceit; ‘I am’.
This ingrained self-deception of an existing ego is verily the
core of all mental defilement.
For this diffcult, yet crucially important principle of
Anatta = No-self = Impersonality = Egolessness:


check out:

• Reflection on No-self as a basis for insight: SN XXII.59
• Identifying the five khandhas as "self" is the cause of affliction: SN XXII.1
• As one of seven perceptions: AN VII.46
• As one of ten perceptions: AN X.60
• Relation of No-self to dependent co-arising: DN 15
• Contemplation of the six senses in terms of No-self: MN 148
• Not understanding No-self is like being a dog tied to a post: SN XXII.99

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Friendship is the Greatest !

Bhikkhu Samāhita, Sri Lanka.