The "No-Self" Teaching (What the Buddha Actually Meant)

The Buddha's no-self teaching, when understood correctly, points directly to the end of suffering. Learn more in this live lecture. ⭐Join our Seekers Community: https://www.patreon.com/seeker2seeker 🙏Support me with a donation on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=28CCPBHAFUUX8 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍃 RESOURCES Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1si1eDAI69P2DtJSeGGu22s7_Io5pseJcdm58S3XfanA/edit?usp=sharing Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu’s Essay: https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/Noble&True/Section0010.html#sigil_toc_id_7 An introduction to the no-self teaching: https://youtu.be/uCldjIVqxAU On no-self & rebirth: https://youtu.be/_6LYo3-BVyo A simile on no-self: https://youtu.be/Eg-kyOUOtH8 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛Timestamps 0:00 The paradox the no-self teaching 1:12 The Buddha's silence 3:54 The thesis: self and no-self as two strategies, not two truths 6:52 Part 1: Views as tools for liberation 18:21 Part 2: Self-language as skillful means 27:12 Part 3: No-self as a more advanced strategy: the five aggregates 36:29 Part 4: The goal & releasing both strategies 44:42 Closing synthesis 49:41 Q&A Begins: Is losing yourself in art a glimpse of no-self? 53:57 What's the flaw in identifying with "pure awareness"? 59:32 Do you need a self before you can let it go? 1:04:55 Did the Buddha really not know sickness and death until his 30s? #buddhism #buddha