When you see with discernment,
'All fabrications are inconstant'--
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path to purity.
When you see with discernment,
'All fabrications are stressful'--
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path to purity.
When you see with discernment,
'All phenomena are not-self'--
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path
to purity.
-Dhammapada, 20, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
2 comments:
In the footnote
are two articles on the vital strategy to living life to the fullest: the concept of not-self or no-self.
Indeed, the question of one's existence is moot.
For the 4 Noble Truths help diagnose and relieve suffering.
According to the Not-Self Strategy, the Buddha considered the arising of knowledge that all phenomena are not-self to be spiritually liberating.
All phenomena refers to information perceived by the five senses, and the sixth sense, mind or consciousness.
Not-self refers to the Other i.e. the pronouns other than "I", "me", and "mine" refer to Not-self.
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