Anatta-lakkhana Sutta: The Discourse on the Not-self Characteristic

Anatta-lakkhana Sutta: The Discourse on the Not-self Characteristic

translated from the Pali by

Ñanamoli Thera

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.059.nymo.html

Thanissaro Bhikkhu : We are not one

http://www.tricycle.com/feature/we-are-not-one

We Are Not One

Interdependence is not what you (and many others) may think.Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Twenty-five years ago, one of my teachers, Ajaan Suwat, led a meditation retreat in Massachusetts for which I served as translator. During a group interview session one afternoon, a retreatant new to Buddhism quipped, “You guys would have a good religion here if only you had a God. That way people would have some sense of support in their practice when things aren’t going well.”

Paticcasamuppada by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books6/Bhikkhu_Buddhadasa_Paticcasamuppada.htm

Paticcasamuppada : Practical Dependent Origination 

by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

The doctrine of paticcasamuppada [dependent origination] taught by the Buddha is profound; consequently, majority of people cannot understand the law of dependent origination. Nonetheless, it is as valid today as it was when the Buddha explained the doctrine to Ven. Ananda some 2500 years ago. The doctrine of dependent origination, the core of Buddhism, is so difficult to comprehend that people commit serious errors in understanding it, and thereby distort the Buddha Dhamma. Buddhadasa Bhikkhu reveals the root of the distortions, and carefully scrutinizes and analyzes it in the book. The root of the distortions may be traced back to the primitive Buddhism period, but the earliest relevant record can be found in Buddhaghosa's essay written some 1500 years ago.

ANATTĀ & REBIRTH by Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu

http://www.buddhismwithoutboundaries.com/Anatta_and_Rebirth.pdf

ANATTĀ & REBIRTH by Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu 

A talk originally addressed to students of Puget Sound University in Seattle, Washington The explanations of rebirth they had heard seemed to contradict the principle of anattā. Tan Ajahn was asked to clarify the seeming contradiction.

Teachings in Chinese Buddhism: Sunyata (Emptiness) in the Mahayana Context

http://www.buddhanet.net/cbp2_f6.htm

Teachings in Chinese Buddhism: Sunyata (Emptiness) in the Mahayana Context   

Science and Buddhism Agree: There is No 'You' There

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Science and Buddhism Agree: There is No 'You' There

by LORI CHANDLER

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Evan Thompson of the University of British Columbia has verified the Buddhist belief of anatta, or not-self. Neuroscience has been interested in Buddhism since the late 1980s, when the Mind and Life Institute was created by HH Dalai Lama and a team of scientists. The science that came out of those first studies gave validation to what monks have known for years — if you train your mind, you can change your brain. As neuroscience has begun studying the mind, they have looked to those who have mastered the mind.

While Buddha didn’t teach anatta to lay people, thinking it might be too confusing, the concept  is centered on the idea that there is no consistent self. The belief that we are the same one moment to the next, or one year to the next, is a delusion. Thompson says that “the brain and body is constantly in flux. There is nothing that corresponds to the sense that there’s an unchanging self.”