Reflections on Anatta ('Not-Self') - Ajahn Dhammasiha

Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts · Apr 25, 2020 · 40m

With questions about Anatta ('Not-Self') via both email and messages during the live podcast, Ajahn Dhammasiha shares some reflections on this subject.He points out that the Buddha did not teach Anattā to establish a doctrine or philosophy, but he intended it as a meditative tool for the explicit purpose of undermining and ulltimately totally uprooting all attachment, clinging and identification with all physical and mental phenomena.The delusion of Self stands and falls with the directly linked delusions of 'I', 'me', 'mine', 'ownership' & 'possessions'. Ownership can not be determined in an…