Teachings on Selflessness
42. Heartful Selflessness
STUDENT QUESTION: Can this pure giving-heart be a link-breaker within Dependent Origination then? Can one act without clinging (attaching) and so not add to their identity (habitual tendencies)? BHANTE’S RESPONSE: Of course it can. That’s what we do. That’s what it is. Slowly, if that is done properly,
38. The Flight of Consciousness
As for consciousness and the self, Many people wonder, “how does a ‘person’ transmigrates from this life to the next.” Consciousness is composed of many activities and processes that lay dormant. They are only activated at certain times. Yes, much like seeds. But, within, they are made of movement,
29. Selflessness is Samādhi
Reading from SN II 12.23 Causes for Liberation “What is the cause for renewal of being?” Or renewal of karma, of action “Identity, should be answered. “ This is bhāva. Bhāva is also ‘becoming.’ This sense of identity. Which becomes more and more solidified. But how does it get
24. The Experience of Nibbāna
And Samādhi, becomes so sharp,
collectedness of mind becomes so sharp,
steadiness so sharp and so present,
awareness starts to dissolve,
it breaks down here.
23. The Beautiful
[One trains:] ‘Let me live, unattached [15] to what is favorable. One then lives, unattached to that. [One trains:] ‘Let me live, accepting what is unfavorable. One then lives, accepting that. [One trains:] ‘Let me live, unattached to both favorable and unfavorable.’ One then lives, unattached to that.
19. Holding on to Impermanence
Now here, of course,
the Buddha’s teaching on impermanence,
in regards to these five aspects of what we call ‘me’.
is at the very core of the teaching,
it is very important,
and it’s good for us to understand that.