This is interesting take. But the 5 skandhas are not a self. We mistake them for a self, but no self can be found. I think this distinction is subtle, but important.https://twitter.com/thomyor_/status/983691453321838592 …
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Belief in self, illusory or not, is the cause of samsara. So the distinction is important. Sorry if that is neither helpful nor skillful. Maybe someone else can explain it better.
So there isn’t a bundle of activity tweeting back at me here, now? Doesn’t mean that bundle of activity tweeting back at me isn’t dependantly originated, completely empty of a self, and so on. But here we’re debating emptiness instead of realising it, lulz yolo.pic.twitter.com/eaWQu3X5xu
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Is a bundle of activity a self? Is there a you beyond the five aggregates we mistake for you? Or are there just appearances arising, abiding and falling away? To be honest, I could be a bot scripted to debate finer points of Buddhist philosophy. No self needed to tweet at all!
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I agree.
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