Friends:
No States have a Core, Self or Substance!
The Buddha once epitomized a crucial, yet counter-intuitive fact by saying:
"Sabbe Dhamma Anatta ", which means "All states are self-&-coreless...!"
This entails an absence or voidness of a stable same core in any phenomena:
Internally exists there no "self", "soul", "I", "you" "me", "agent" anywhere!
Externally exists there no "substance", "matter", or "real world" anywhere!
Mentally is there no "controller", "speaker" or "experiencer" inside in mind...
Physically is there no "reality" or "rock-solid-matter-stuff" outside in world...
Both inner "EGO" & outer "SUBSTANCE" are illusionary ideas!
Buddha emphasized that release from the Ego-Substance-concept was Bliss:
"Blissful is solitude for one who is content, learned & who see the Dhamma.
More blissful is harmlessness towards all living beings without exception.
Even more blissful is freedom from any sensual urge & craving whatsoever.
Yet, the supreme bliss, is the elimination of this abysmal conceit 'I Exists'"
Udana – Inspiration: II – 1
No Substantial Object exists 'Out There', nor any Subject-Ego 'In Here'!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
"In the seen is merely the process of seeing...
In the heard is merely the process of hearing...
In the sensed is merely the process of sensing...
In the thought is merely the process of thinking...
So knowing, you will not be connected 'with that'...
So disconnected you will not be absorbed 'into that'...
So neither with that, nor into that You Are Not created by that sensation!
When there is no 'You' inferred or conjectured by that very experience,
then 'You' are neither 'here', 'there', 'both', 'beyond' nor 'in between'...!
On realizing the importance of this incident the Blessed One exclaimed:
Where neither solidity, fluidity, heat nor motion find any footing,
there no sun, moon nor star ever shines. There is neither any light,
yet nor is there any darkness! When the Noble, through stilling of
all construction, through quieting of all mental formation, directly
experiences this, then is he freed from both form & formlessness,
then is he released from both pleasure and all pain ..."
Udana – Inspiration: I - 10.
Further comments and explanation here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No ... There'.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Buddha insisted on a subtle and profound quasi-pseudo-real world:
"The world is bound up by and shrouded in delusion. It appears as real and
is regarded as if it were fine! The fool bound to his illusive acquisitions,
blinded by darkness, assumes it as eternal, but for one who sees & really
understands, there is nothing real, stable or same, neither here nor there..."
Udana – Inspiration: VII – 10
"This World both Begins and Ends within this 2 fathom frame of bones..."
SN I 62
"The ALL is thereby actually just a sensed & experienced representation..."
SN IV 15
A crucial core question is: What is actually an experienced phenomenon?
See the equally vital answer here! If mind is directly involved in creating
the very "thing" or "state" it perceives, as an active participatory observer,
then there cannot ever be any "objective observation" or "world out-there",
which is independent of the mind that intends, selects, and manifests it...!
It entails that 'mind' is inseparable from 'matter'. They are Siamese-Twins!
In early Buddhism, the Buddha coined this subtle yet dual Unity: Nama-Rupa!
Name-&-Form or Naming-&-Forming, since these are dynamic processes, that
in mutual dependence creates each other like 2 creepers, that only can grow
up, if growing up twisted & rotated around the other's stem like a DNA-helix.
See, dig and ponder also intensive over what Buddha taught as "Reality":
Maha-suññata Sutta: The Greater Discourse on Emptiness. MN 122 iii 109
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of all Things. MN 1 i 1
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Anatta-lakkhana Sutta: On the Characteristic of No-Self. SN 22.59 iii 66
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .nymo.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
See also what contemporary Quantum Mechanics deposits as "Maybe-Real":
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Some_Clues.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Di ... States.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Q ... ddhism.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Om ... m_Mind.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No ... There'.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdf ... ut_law.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Co ... stency.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The anthropic universe develops by conscious selection of many participating
observers. Please note that the U symbolizing the universe gets "fatter" left
by increased observation! American physicist
John Archibald Wheeler said:
"No phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an Observed Phenomenon...!"
"We are participators in bringing into being not only the near, but also the
far away both in time and space! Symbolic representation of the Universe is
a self-excited system brought into being by self-reference or auto-creation
by consciously selecting observers over an immensely long period of time...
Such a recursive-reflecting creative concept is similar to the endless series
of receding reflections one sees in a pair of mirrors facing each others....”
Reference: J.A. Wheeler in Isham et al., eds., Quantum Gravity
(Clarendon, Oxford, 1975), pgs. 564-565. (Edited Extract.)
"No phenomenon is a phenomenon, until it is an observed phenomenon!" said
by J.A. Wheeler from his delayed choice experiment ideas, is referenced
in: The undivided universe: An ontological interpretation of quantum theory.
p. 104 By
David Bohm, and Basil J. Hiley.
"The path of the electron comes into existence, only when we observe it!"
John S. Bell
"Fundamental to contemporary Quantum Theory is the notion that there is
no phenomenon until it is observed! This is known as the
'Observer Effect'.
The implications of the
'Observer Effect' are profound because, if true,
it means that before anything can manifest in the physical universe it must
first be observed! This Observer Effect clearly implies that all the physical
Universe is the direct result of consciousness itself!"
Alex Paterson.
HELP! Please Help Me Out of this Empty Illusion!
If you feel slightly weird or dizzy after reading this, you are right on track!
Hihihi 
Keep on observing, studying, reflecting. Never give up Examination!
It is not "reality" that seems to be evaporating under your feet, but rather
the unseen, hidden, habitual and utterly false assumptions you had about it!
More on No-Self, impersonality, ego-lessness, No-I-Me-identity (Anatta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/N ... t_What.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In ... latity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Changing_Self.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Se ... Anatta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/We_Are_Not.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/No_ ... Person.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dee ... t_Doer.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Div ... reedom.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Wit ... oversy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Fact of No-Self = Anatta...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The ... Anatta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Have a nice, noble and real day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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No Phenomenon is a Self, Ego or a Substance!
