‘‘The single phrase ‘empty of self’ sums up the words ‘impermanent (anicca), unsatisfactory (dukkha) and not self (anatta)’.’’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — Knowing the root cause of Dukkha.
‘Knowing the root cause of Dukkha, one will be able to extinguish it. That root cause is delusion, the wrong understanding that there is a self and things belonging to a self.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — This is a fundamental illusion.
‘This is a fundamental illusion constantly being conditioned in the human mind, in the mind of all sentient beings. And it is rooted in ignorance. This illusion, the idea of a self.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation: One will never come to see Dhamma by.
‘One will never come to see Dhamma by means of rational thinking.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Getting Started in Mindfulness With Breathing, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
You will discover something that everyone should find in order to not waste this opportunity of having been born.
The A, B, C of Buddhism, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
You have heard that the Lord Buddha, in his enlightenment, discovered the Dhamma…
Morning Meditation: Only one familiar with the observation.
‘Only one familiar with the observation of mind can really understand Dhamma.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Evening Meditation: When we say that there is no self.
‘When we say that there is no self, people get worried, or angry. Their attachment and identification to this idea of a self is so strong.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhism now 