I advise you to read the scriptures more
perhaps do not try to translate
I advise you to read the scriptures more
You, Cappuccino, should re-acquaint yourself with the basics of the Dharma. It is far from you and you are far from it. I am worlds more qualified to translate than you, both being educated in classical Chinese and being a former seminarian of the Tendai sect. You are neither of these, being an unqualified ātmavādin who believes in "the soul" and "the Christian God." You are not qualified to critique my understanding of the Dharma.cappuccino wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:04 pmI advise you to read the scriptures more
perhaps do not try to translate
Please explain what you understand differentiates these two terms.cappuccino wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:59 pm
because no self is an experience of nothingness
not self is what you want to contemplate
no self is one extreme, self is the other extremeRambutan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:56 pmPlease explain what you understand differentiates these two terms.cappuccino wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:59 pm
because no self is an experience of nothingness
not self is what you want to contemplate
And what do you think he is saying here?cappuccino wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:35 pm Bhikkhus, form is not-self. Were form self, then this form would not lead to affliction, and one could have it of form: 'Let my form be thus, let my form be not thus.' And since form is not-self, so it leads to affliction, and none can have it of form: 'Let my form be thus, let my form be not thus.'
Anatta-lakkhana Sutta
To regard this body as not you
But no “you” is being asserted either.cappuccino wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:55 pmTo regard this body as not you
It’s impermanent and unsatisfactory
You are not suffering?
Except obviously you exist
You don’t know me
I don't know you, but I know enough to know that you are not an Āryan.
There’s no intrinsically existent “you” (atman) that experiences suffering. That’s flipped backwards. It’s really the other way around.
What do you think you know?
shrugAnanda Sutta wrote:If I — being asked by Vacchagotta the wanderer if there is a self — were to answer that there is a self, would that be in keeping with the arising of knowledge that all phenomena are not-self?