Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:23 pm That's why going to the pub is such great fun.

The slightest of all the results coming from drinking fermented & distilled liquors is that, when one becomes a human being, it leads to mental derangement.

Vipaka Sutta: Results

Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:"I have no self" is just as much a doctrine of self as the view "I have a self."

Alagaddupama Sutta: The Water-Snake Simile

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:31 pm I recognise the dilemma.

you think in terms of no-self …


no-self leads to thinking of annihilation

That's correct for Advaita, but not for Buddhism. Anatta negates Atma. The clue is in the negating prefix. And what is undeclared by me? ... 'The soul & the body are the same'... 'The soul is one thing and the body another'... Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta You probably need to find a decent Advaita teach...

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:19 pm

cappuccino wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:12 pm

SteRo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:21 pm the self/soul

not the same

That's correct for Advaita, but not for Buddhism.

Anatta negates Atma. The clue is in the negating prefix.

And what is undeclared by me? ... 'The soul & the body are the same'... 'The soul is one thing and the body another'...


Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta

SteRo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:21 pm the self/soul

not the same

thepea wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:45 pm So is the soul the mind?

thepea wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:41 pm Silence is not helpful when you find yourself in front of a judge.

Matthew 7:1-3

JC938 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:31 pm Should I stop it?

I expect that will make things worse

SarathW wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 6:19 am However, I do not know how to handle it when you have a beehive in your house entrance!

just that it is intruding in your life


whatever the meaning is

SarathW wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 12:46 am How differently you handle the situation?

I would look for the dream meaning of bees


since life is a dream so to speak

chownah wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 5:34 am I am fact; others are fiction.
chownah

you are confused

dpcalder wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:04 am Any recommendations?

just understand:

Dependent Arising

And what is undeclared by me? ... 'The soul & the body are the same'... 'The soul is one thing and the body another'...


Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta

thepea wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:04 am I see the soul as accumulation of past trauma.
Is this in line with buddhas teachings?

Buddha doesn't teach about the soul


but neither does he teach against the soul