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not Buddhas arise to explain anatta: Whether Realized Ones arise or not, this law of nature persists, this regularity of natural principles, this invariance of natural principles: all things are not-self … A Realized One understands this and comprehends it, then he explains, teaches, asserts, establishes, clarifies, analyzes and reveals it: ‘All things are not-self.’ …

For example, when the hand is accidentally placed into burning fire, wisdom quickly withdraws the hand from the fire rather than any "self". … 'Self' is not required here to draw the child to the breast for feeding. In summary, whatever moral or social wisdom is developed prior to realising anatta remains. …

arising of this "self" thought or view is the arising of suffering (SN 12.15; SN 5.10) This "self" idea is a "disease" - Ud 3.10 This "self" idea is a cancer, dart & affliction - MN 140 This world … Afflicted by contact, it calls disease a 'self.' …

and indeed, O monks, since form is not-self, therefore form leads to affliction and it does not obtain regarding form: 'May my form be thus, may my form not be thus.' "... if feeling were self, then feeling … While the above is referring to ābādhāya (sickness), it is indirectly saying, if there was a self, such a self should be permanent or not capable of sickness (and thus decay and death). …

'Re-birth' is merely the re-arising of the 'self-belief' or 'self-concept' (in this life). … That thought fabrication (of 'self') is born of that. …

This conclusion contradicts the position that self is an error, illusion or is like a dream because when an error is corrected it vanishes(self is annihilated). … But one day, you met a woman & had a child and thus acquired a self or identity as a "husband" and "father". These subjective & conventional self-identities or labels are "acquisitions of self". …

The Pali in SN 44.10 is & poorly translated as follows: kinnu kho bho gotama, atthattāti...Kiṃ pana bho gotama, natthattāti Is there a self? Is there no self? … Therefore, in SN 44.10, Vacchagotta probably asked the following questions (in order to illicit the response of the Buddha to Ananda): Am I a self? Do I have a self? Am I not a self? …

For example, if there was no idea of self, deeds would not be done (unless they were the selfless compassionate deeds of a Buddha to help other realise not-self). … This is why it is said kamma ends when not-self is realised by the eightfold path (AN 6.63). Therefore, kamma depends on the idea of the doer (self); just as suffering depends on the idea of a self. …

If I — being asked by Vacchagotta the wanderer if there is a self — were to answer that there is a self, would that be in keeping with the arising of knowledge that all phenomena are not-self?" … "And if I — being asked by Vacchagotta the wanderer if there is no self — were to answer that there is no self, the bewildered Vacchagotta would become even more bewildered: 'Does the self I used …

The taste does make Adam 'who' 'he' believes 'he' is because there is no (self) 'becoming' without sense experience. … AN 3.76 There is no real ephemeral 'self' in Buddhism. In Buddhism, 'self' is a 'view' or 'idea' born of ignorance. …

SN 22.81 There is the case where an uninstructed, run-of-the-mill person — assumes form (the body) to be the self or the self as possessing form or form as in the self or the self as in form. … or the self as possessing form or form as in the self or the self as in form. …

In early Buddhism, which taught all things are not-self (anatta), this view is unacceptablea, as explained in SN 22.79, which states it is wrong view to regard memories of the past as "I", "mine" & "myself … internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near, all consciousness should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self …

MN 38 & SN 22.53 say consciousness is dependently originated dependent on sense organs & the other four aggregates. Therefore, it appears the suttas say there is no consciousness independent of the fo …

There is definitely a sutta that says annihilationism is the most beneficial of outsider wrong views because at least annihilationists are expected to have developed some dispassion. Where as I have n …

The word "atta" in the reported teachings of the Buddha obviously means "self" rather than "soul". … Refer to SN 22.59, which says "not-self" means to regard everything as "This is not me, this is not mine, this is not myself". The meaning of "atta" here is obviously not "soul". …