Here’s a 27 minute recorded audio Dhamma Talk (38MB .mp3).

Topics:

  • anatta, not-self, views, ditthi, oppressors, victims, belief in a self, sakkāya-diṭṭhi, de-personalizing, removing the drama, removing the stories, brahmaviharas, jhanas, the 6th jhana, infinite consciousness, the Hindu concept of Atman (“universal self”), moving on


Sutta References:

  • MN 22: “The Simile of the Snake”

    …any kind of material form whatever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near, all material form should be seen as it actually is with proper wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’ Any kind of feeling whatever … Any kind of perception whatever … Any kind of formations whatever … Any kind of consciousness whatever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near, all consciousness should be seen as it actually is with proper wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’

  • Sn 5.15: Mogharaja-manava-puccha: Mogharaja’s Question

    suññato lokaṃ avekkhassu, mogharāja sadā sato.

    attānudiṭṭhiṃ ūhacca, evaṃ maccutaro siyā.

    evaṃ lokaṃ avekkhantaṃ, maccurājā na passatī”

    (The Buddha:) Always mindful, Mogharaja, regard the world as empty, having removed any view in terms of self. This way one is above and beyond death. One who regards the world in this way isn’t seen by Death’s King.

    Alternate translation of “attānudiṭṭhiṃ ūhacca”:

    “murdering the view of self” (instead of “having removed any view in terms of self.”)

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