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I know what you mean Brother.

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Well, partly due to the incompatibilty of my view with mainstream Buddhism and mostly due to other reasons, I've disrobed. I didn't feel I could honestly continue so it was better to leave. I will continue practice and study, I do believe Plotinus Veritas is correct in his interpretation, that Anatta is an adjective and Citta is not Anatta.

So good luck, with Metta, Several.

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There are no humans. Only aggregates

This only matters if we are human.

But we are not. We are mind.

Thinking is indeed overrated. Now trying to feel the unspoken answer. With better reason than curiosity. In fact, without reason at all.

Umm.

 

To summarise:

 

• We are not "we",  it is Anicca (the absence of permanence and continuity),    it is Anatta (This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self).
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• Anatta does not confirm/imply annihilation.
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• Practice involves investigation of right view, & investigation of states.

 

 

 

Should I deduce that the fact that there is nothing permanent or constant doesn't mean there is nothing?

 

Isn't right view open to interpretation?

 

How can I be sure a particular right view is the correct one, given the many conflicting writings, attributed to the Buddha, requiring investigation?

If there is no 'I' there cannot be 'us'.

Nothing created or manifest is permanent. Citta is not created, not part of dependent origination, never cited as Anatta or Anicca.

Sammadithi, translated as right view, can also be enlightened view. Not sure what you mean by 'what part of right view'. It is Sammaditthi or it is not. It is not an interpretation, not a rationale.

It would be better to say Sammaditthi is used in the investigation of states, from the theoretical to the experential.

You'll know which view is Samma when it occurs. It is knowledge beyond words. See the progression; right speech/action coming from right thought coming from right view. Thinking is a corruption of knowing, true knowledge is wordless.

Investigating what is accurate from approximate in Buddhas writing will enable right view. Words become thoughts become understanding. What language were you born thinking in? None. You learned it. Same as everyone. It is an artificial construct that we have been seduced into believing gives us understanding. And we believe it then wonder why we suffer. Foolish. Short-sighted. Like believing a picture of food will give sustenance. However we are habitually trapped in inner verbalisation and the delusion of pretty explainations. Part of the escape from that unnatural state is to apply rationality to itself until it collapses under its own inadequacy and becomes the servant it was made to be.

Dunno. I have the flu and cannot concentrate. Normal service will be resumed shortly.

Umm.

Because Moha (delusion/ignorance) is not a Sambojjhanga (Enlightenment factor) I entertain the strong possibility that most people are mistaken about Anatta.

Fourth, I have as you well know already answered about effect on practice numerous times. Read the previous posts again.

More to follow...

Third, practice is advised by right view, not any coveninent view, investigation of states not unquestioning obedience to dogma.

Second, prevailing faith that Anatta equals annihiliation is not established giving some solace to those who have lost loved ones.

First, that we are not 'we', 'it' is Anicca, 'it' is Anatta.

So, I have read it all now and I still find Sayadaws argument unconvincing. Like many people he confuses Nama with Citta. I have no doubt the Vipassana method works, I am also of the opinion that Buddha was avoiding the Hindu concept of Atman. But the evidence seems to be that comentators on the Suttas have expanded the Anatta principle beyond its original intent. They just avoid being nihilists by citing rebirth. I do not feel that a single good refutation of Plotinus Veritas position has been offered so far.

He's probably seeing Citta from an Abhidhammic perspective as Cittas or mind-moments.

With all respect to the Sayadaw he seems to be mistaken, Citta is the central core of all mental phenomena. He is correct if one only views the effects, the mental states themselves, which are manifestations of mind.

Yes. So I'm right.

Wellll, concentration is not a matter of posture. It is developed through use. There are four postures or attitudes, lying, sitting, standing and perambulation.

Right mindfulness applies to everything in the eightfold path, which is why it is key to insight.

Insight is limitless, think about what Blake said about eternity in a moment and a universe in a grain of sand (or something to that effect). You are measuring insight by appearances.

I move about without location precisely because "one night in Bangkok makes a hard man crumble" as it were.

Reducing the variables makes insight easier to come by, maintaining it in any circumstance is a matter of fearlessness or Upekkha.

Because mind exists whether there are 'situations' or not. Why do people go to meditation retreats if not to reduce external stimulus and give the mind fewer places to hide?

If you're detached you're hardly likely to react much. This has nothing to do with avoiding anything. Insight into Nama/Rupa is all that counts. They experience things constantly, even when sleeping. What you are describing sounds like analysis rather than insight.

Mainly the attachment to the idea of self, which would seem totally against what I've been saying here, but isn't.

Nope. You can observe attachment til the cows come home. Its overcoming it, fostering detachment thats important. The only insight into attachment you'll ever need is that it is a hinderance.

You going to have a go at Iran about the Persian Empire too? England hasn't been a significant power since before WW2. Oz and NZ have caused a lot of their own domestic problems, you might want to grow up and stop blaming England for every problem you can't solve.

Just like to point out that the Thai Visa phone app is complete rubbish and fequently loses posts I make. And I'm getting bored with wasting my time on it.