Wisdom and Knowledge Series, post #17. Buddhism, post #13 (17.2.12):
I posted the below post at Dhamma Wheel message board ( https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=33509 ):
I guess what I write below is my view of what anatta means basically to me. I say "guess" because I am not pondering how much truth in what I write "spontaneously" as what I actually believe -- it actually may be what I might really believe, but cannot truthfully say for sure:
If you go to my http://facebook.com/aidinhle , you will see Thanissaro Bhikkhu has the middle prominent position in my banner.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu has helped me gain a self-powered life through his translation of the Majjhima Nikaya 61 ( https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.061.than.html ), and his discriminating (analytical) teachings helped me, too, so I am paying my gratitude to him in putting his image in my banner. Thanissaro Bhikkhu, though, I do not follow.
My name samsarictravelling, I will now explain what it means.
If I called myself samsarictraveller, it would sound better, but does not convey the idea there is no self.
In the Visuddhimagga, it is said something like this:
Suffering, but no sufferer.
Actions, but no doer.
Nibbana, but no one who enters it.
The path, but no one on it is seen.
So, likewise: no traveller, just travelling.
I do not believe in an unchanging soul (atman), like the Hindus believe.
All dhammas -- dhammas encompasses all the conditioned (samsara) and the only one Unconditioned thing: nibbana -- are anatta;not-self;without a soul/Soul.
samsarictravelling/Ai (Dinh) Le
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