‘Working with hopes of getting something in return, is a matter of me and mine that people are so familiar with they don’t even notice it.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
‘Working with hopes of getting something in return, is a matter of me and mine that people are so familiar with they don’t even notice it.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
‘To say that the Buddha has passed into Nibbana is not necessarily true. In a more profound sense the Buddha is still alive.’
Ajahn Chah
‘Understanding of dependent origination is essential. It allows us to know that the concept of ego is dependent on various causal conditions.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
‘If, bhikkhus, there were no not-born, not-brought-to-being, not-made, not-conditioned, no escape would be discerned from what is born, brought-to-being, made, conditioned.’
The Buddha
Buddhist film A Dharma Talk With Ajahn Sumedho. About 90 minutes.
Nothing that could be taken as being a self or belonging to a self.
I’m telling you, it’s great fun to observe closely how the mind works.
Ajahn Sumedho gives a brilliant talk pointing out the shaking and the unshakable.