Not-Self: Contemplating Anatta | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri

Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts · Aug 31, 2023 · 34m

The Buddha's teaching on Anattā (Non-Self) is not meant to establish a doctrine or philosophy. It's not meant for mental gymnastics, to think about it in a purley intellectual manner, or to argue about it. Instead, it's meant as a meditation object, a tool to be used for contemplation, in order to free our hearts from identification, attachment and suffering. When we contemplate form, feeling, perception, intention and consciousness as:

"This is not mine, this is not me, this is not my Self",

then we weeken identification and ultimately completely disengage from these five groups of clinging…