It would be more useful to criticized your attā views than to criticize your reading comprehension.
You equate worldly death with annihilation. You claim that your views are not eternalism because you believe that the self/soul "changes" and that eternalism requires an "unchanging" self/soul.
It's pretty easy to find you on this board arguing these very points.
What you do not consider is "partial eternalism," which allows for parts of the self/soul/attā/ātman to change while a certain eternal part of the self or soul or mind doesn't change and instead experiences the changes of the other parts. That certain part that does not change is "eternalism" all the same.
So regardless if you believe that you change or not, if on some level you believe that "Cappuccino will not die," you are an eternalist. If I, on some level (any level!), believe that "Coëmgenu will not die," then I'm an eternalist, even if I do not consider all that is "Coëmgenu" to be an unchanging entity.
Are there Eternalists here?
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What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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I equate no self with annihilationism
because the Buddha equates it
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Like Vacchagotta before you.
To be fair, I don't think that the Buddha, if he had to give instructions to the members of this forum, would teach anattā here to many. Anattā was clearly a more carefully guarded teaching in the past, unlike how it is casually bandied about and "popified" today. The Buddha was clearly very concerned about its correct interpretation, declining to teach Vacchagotta about it due to his confusion and rebuking Sati rather strongly for saying that he understood the Buddha's Dharma to be in violation of the principle.
To be fair, I don't think that the Buddha, if he had to give instructions to the members of this forum, would teach anattā here to many. Anattā was clearly a more carefully guarded teaching in the past, unlike how it is casually bandied about and "popified" today. The Buddha was clearly very concerned about its correct interpretation, declining to teach Vacchagotta about it due to his confusion and rebuking Sati rather strongly for saying that he understood the Buddha's Dharma to be in violation of the principle.
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What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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I agree. Today a lot of people are exposed to teachings they aren’t ready for yet if even at all in this life. It creates all kinds of confusion, as evidenced by many posters here past and present. Anatta is hard, and easy to get wrong.Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:24 pm Like Vacchagotta before you.
To be fair, I don't think that the Buddha, if he had to give instructions to the members of this forum, would teach anattā here to many. Anattā was clearly a more carefully guarded teaching in the past, unlike how it is casually bandied about and "popified" today. The Buddha was clearly very concerned about its correct interpretation, declining to teach Vacchagotta about it due to his confusion and rebuking Sati rather strongly for saying that he understood the Buddha's Dharma to be in violation of the principle.
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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no self is the popular view
everyone understands it, so to speak
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That Hindu/Zen teacher frequently contradicts himself.
Maybe he's brilliant in his way, maybe he's foolish in other peoples' ways, but either way I think your posting of him is being taken severely out of context. As a Vendantist and a Zen practitioner, Adyaśānti believes in the "great Ātman" or, as it's known in Zen, the "True Self."
Maybe he's brilliant in his way, maybe he's foolish in other peoples' ways, but either way I think your posting of him is being taken severely out of context. As a Vendantist and a Zen practitioner, Adyaśānti believes in the "great Ātman" or, as it's known in Zen, the "True Self."
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What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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You did not watch the video
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I watched both videos, and have watched many other videos from him. About 5. That's enough for me.
I just found out that he also studied Zen, where they sometimes believe in the "true self." Go figure. I edited my above post correspondingly.
I just found out that he also studied Zen, where they sometimes believe in the "true self." Go figure. I edited my above post correspondingly.
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What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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I must have watched a thousand
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I think that watching too much of him might melt the brain. Then again, that's likely what he's going for. Melt the brain and discover "now." As he says, the brain exists in the past and future always. Your true being is in the "now," which your brain can never get to, due to the delay between seeing an object and mentally processing the experience.
What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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youtu.be/OQT6FWOmkOU?t=300
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