ท่าน ว. วชิรเมธี บรรยายธรรม ณ MIT และ มหาวิทยาลัยฮาร์วาร์ด ทุกรูปทุกนาม จบ MIT ทั้งนั้น ส่วนพระ ก็ Made in Thailand What is the concept of Anattā (non-self), how can our understanding of this concept direct us in our daily life? Anattā or non-self in an essential tenet in Buddhism. It can be realized through insight. The concept of Anattā or non-self may be classified into two levels: At the lower level, Anattā or non-self can be understood through rational thinking and we can use such understanding in our moral development. If we remain mindful of non-self, it will help us to be free from craving, conceit, and the idea of self. In this way we can rid ourselves of attachment and become unselfish. At the higher level, Anattā or non-self is the truth of all that is, of all that exists. The truth of all that is not what we perceive through our ordinary senses unless we have attained enlightenment. When one attains full enlightenment, one’s attachment and craving absolutely stop. The following principles are essential to the application of the Anattā concept to our daily life. 1. Do nothing only for one’s own benefit or to satisfy only one’s own needs and wants. 2. Do everything to decrease one’s self-importance. 3. Do not hold one’s own ideas above the views of others. In our interactions with others we should be open-minded and perceive things according to the principle of cause and effect rather than according to our own desire. However, attachment to non-attachment is still a kind of attachment which is also to be avoided. Along the middle path, detachment needs to be accompanied by wisdom. 39. If there is no Attā or the permanent soul, how could Kamma (Karma), good or bad actions, give its result to the doer? Buddhism denies Attā or the permanent soul to be attach to, but admits the continuity of life from one to another, as long as one does not reach Nibbāna or the utter extinction of the fire of defilements and the fire of suffering. Whenever human or animal beings continue to transmigrate in the cycle of life from birth to death and from death to rebirth, kamma still continues to give its result to the doer.
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