Basic Explanation of ''No-Self Concept'' - Proves All Religions are Man-Made.

[GOD IS MY DOG]

All religions tell you that you have a permanent, never-changing soul or self or identity that will spend eternity in hell or heaven...........




The Buddha taught that an ''individual'' is a combination of five aggregates of existence, also called the Five Skandhas which are:

1st) Form >> physical forms

2nd) Sensation >> feelings, emotional and physical, and our senses -- seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling.

3rd) Perception >> thinking, conceptualization, cognition, reasoning or when coming into contact with a physical object or an idea.

4th) Mental formations >> habits, prejudices and predispositions. Our volition, or willfulness, as are attention, faith, conscientiousness, pride, desire, vindictiveness, and other mental states. The causes and effects of karma are especially important to the fourth skandha.

5th) Consciousness >> awareness of an object, the third skandha might recognize the object and assign a concept-value to it, and the fourth skandha might react with desire or revulsion or other mental formation. The fifth skandha ties the experience of life together.



### Understand that skandhas are empty. Buddha taught that "you" are not an integral, autonomous entity. The individual self, or what we might call the ego, is a by-product of the skandhas.



Trying to find your ''soul or self'' is just like trying to find the ''car''............there's no ''car'' since a car is made of different parts...............just like the ''identity'' is made up of the skandhas..............

 

[drifter]

"All religions tell you that you have a permanent, never-changing soul or self or identity that will spend eternity in hell or heaven."

Although This part of teaching is different from other religion but it does not mean that being different in view is the " truth " .

"Trying to find your ''soul or self'' is just like trying to find the ''car''............there's no ''car'' since a car is made of different parts...............just like the ''identity'' is made up of the skandhas.............."


Anyway the concept of no self is very complicating .. A life is a life ... Why make it until so complicated ? If you can't find yourself then how are u going to understand yourself in life ? How u expect ppl to understand u if u can't even understand yourself ? By the way , using Buddha logic that there is no car because car is made of different part can I also say there's no Buddha teaching ? .. Since Buddha teaching is also make of different part of teaching . If there are no Buddha teaching then what the heck is buddha teaching .

If ppl have this kind of no self concept mentality ...are they living life aimlessly ? giving up everything like the Buddha ? Family , wife , parents , Money , car , house ....Ect . everything is not important anymore ... It's a negative teaching .. Which I don agree . Are we suppose to make full use of our life before we die ?

This is the reason why I don't like religion .. It always trying to change ppl thinking by talking some nonsense .

 

[drifter]

If you can't convince ppl .. Confuse them

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

you don't understand, it's ok..............like i said, it's hard to understand and even harder to explain..........there are many people that are Buddhists for decades and they still don't understand what's Emptiness...........


by the way, don't you think if there's a God...........it should be formless, nameless and genderless ?............just like the Ultimate Reality, it should be impossible to describe it.

 

[drifter]

you don't understand, it's ok..............like i said, it's hard to understand and even harder to explain..........there are many people that are Buddhists for decades and they still don't understand what's Emptiness...........


by the way, don't you think if there's a God...........it should be formless, nameless and genderless ?............just like the Ultimate Reality, it should be impossible to describe it.

Bro it not that I don't understand it's because there's a lot of contradiction in his teaching too .


" by the way, don't you think if there's a God...........it should be formless, nameless and genderless ?............just like the Ultimate Reality, it should be impossible to describe it. "

Seriously , I never once thought how god should look like if there's one . Because I know that there's no god . For example if I ask u what gender or religion a roti monster look like .. You surely cannot answer my question. because there's no roti monster .