Re: Buddhist Have a Soul

Posted by wizanda on 1471506872

It is the eternal soul (santāna) we are to explore, the self is illusionary....

The core of Øneness (Brahman) has no self; in its lack of self it is the Source of the Dharma, it is all things.

Within us attaining Tathagatahood (gone from reality), there are levels of ascension, the lower levels are absorbed by their own self; the higher we ascend past the material plains, and into a realm of pure consciousness (Øneness), where unconditional love and wisdom are the ultimate truth, no-self is required.

The self (1) is like inward reflection.... No self (0) is an outwardly reflection... Both are concepts of existing.

When we attain unconditional love we are selfless; when we attain wisdom, we realize that we're just part of the whole.

If we stop to look at what we are, whilst enlightened, we become inwardly reflecting and have a self.

If we try to say we have no-self in a physical form, then clearly there are issues with this; as without a soul, and without Brahman (universal mind), then where does the no-self reside, and think within some the egoic mind is all that is left.

As if we truly had no-self, we wouldn't exist in a physical form, we would have transcended the need of it, as here (Maya) is all reflections.

We could be in a state of 'I Am not-the-self', which clearly starts with the word ego by the definitive 'I'; if we say, 'We're not-the-self', then we're back to saying we are Brahman (universal mind).

We're to use the self within this physical form, by accepting we're One: we exist within the universal mind (CPU/Brahman), and everything is part of it within the Matrix (Maya).

Then when we see everything is One, a part of the universal mind, we realize really everything in reality doesn't even exist; it is all part of the dream (Maya); thus in reality it all has no-self.

The more we live being none (Ø) within the universal mind (Øneness), the more we become a Bodhisattva, by helping everyone by our selfless being.