Pali explanation of Anatta

[LonesomeYogurt]

Hello there, I'm looking for a way to restate or summarize the concept of anatta in Pali, just in a simple phrase. Is there a possible way to say something along the lines of "I am free from self," "There is no I," or "This is not me?" Almost like a bumper-sticker phrase to sum up what anatta means without using the term to define itself, you know?

Any help would be appreciated!

[bodom]

Here is the stock passage found within the suttas:

'This is not mine, this is not I, this is not my self.'

Anatta-lakkhana Sutta: The Discourse on the Not-self Characteristic
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .nymo.html

[LonesomeYogurt]

Perfect! Now if someone could only point out how "This is not mine, this is not I, this is not myself." would be rendered in Pali?

[mikenz66]

If you go to the link cited and click on "S iii 66" at the top, you get the Pali.

However, that may not be useful.
If you go here:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... tml#anatta
you get Pali and English.

"Yam-panāniccaṃ dukkhaṃ vipariṇāma-dhammaṃ,
Kallaṃ nu taṃ samanupassituṃ,
Etaṃ mama eso'ham-asmi eso me attāti."

"And is it fitting to regard what is inconstant, stressful, subject to change as:
'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am'?"

Mike

[LonesomeYogurt]

If you go to the link cited and click on "S iii 66" at the top, you get the Pali.

However, that may not be useful.
If you go here:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... tml#anatta
you get Pali and English.

Mike[/quote]

So "Evam-etaṃ yathābhūtaṃ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṃ" would be "This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am?" But I know that sammappannaya is "with right discernment" right? So are the two phrases kinda inexorably linked? In which case, would it be possible to simply have the Pali for "This is not my self. This is not what I am?" Or is it impossible to simply render it like that?

Thanks for the help everyone!

[Dmytro]

In which case, would it be possible to simply have the Pali for "This is not my self. This is not what I am?"

'netaṃ mama, neso'hamasmi, na meso attā'

Best wishes, Dmytro