1 of 22

Slide Notes

An understanding of the word anatta is critical to correct development of insight. Here are some phrases to help.
These are from discussions by the Dhamma Study and Propagation Foundation in Thailand.

See my other decks:
https://www.haikudeck.com/p/EOLwON3y6p/why-study-buddhism

https://www.haikudeck.com/p/VQsrOj70pE/8-misconceptions-in-buddhism

https://www.haikudeck.com/p/JO34vH3Vnm/14-big-ideas-of-buddhism

More info:
http://www.zolag.co.uk
DownloadGo Live

Anatta

Published on Nov 06, 2015

Phrases to help understand the meaning of anatta in Theravada Buddhism

View Outline

MORE DECKS TO EXPLORE

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1.

Anatta

Alan Weller 2015
An understanding of the word anatta is critical to correct development of insight. Here are some phrases to help.
These are from discussions by the Dhamma Study and Propagation Foundation in Thailand.

See my other decks:
https://www.haikudeck.com/p/EOLwON3y6p/why-study-buddhism

https://www.haikudeck.com/p/VQsrOj70pE/8-misconceptions-in-buddhism

https://www.haikudeck.com/p/JO34vH3Vnm/14-big-ideas-of-buddhism

More info:
http://www.zolag.co.uk
Photo by kevin dooley
2.

The understanding which understands conditioned realities is also conditioned.

Photo by SeeMidTN.com (aka Brent)
3.

Realities arise beyond our expectation.

Photo by bjornmeansbear
4.

What reality appears now?

Photo by Adi Setiawan
5.

Results for whom?

Photo by philhearing
6.

We cannot select our way of life.

Photo by onkel_wart (thomas lieser)
7.

Seeing sees visible object. What is seen is not a person. We have attachment to individuals, but individuality has no separate characteristic.

Photo by Alyssa L. Miller
8.

What is experienced is hardness, not a table, but it has to be known by developed understanding.

Photo by b'jesus
9.

Don't force yourself to think it is the right time and right place for the arising of awareness, because awareness can arise anytime or place. Don't limit it.

Photo by pamhule
10.

When one thinks 'I am aware', it is not right awareness.

Photo by Leonard John Matthews
11.

Right understanding is not in the text, it is at the moment of understanding what seeing is.

Photo by kjetikor
12.

Never enough understanding, because each moment is conditioned.

Photo by jacqui.brown33
13.

It is conditioned, it is unavoidable, uncontrollable.

Photo by Ed Yourdon
14.

We have the illusion of control all our life except at the moment of sati. It helps to eradicate that illusion.

Photo by dustyknapp
15.

Nobody can condition any reality.

Photo by Diueine
16.

Seeing is conditioned, pleasant feeling is conditioned. It has its own conditions already. We shouldn't prepare any other conditions for any reality to arise.

Photo by Anant Rohankar
17.

Can you tell what is beyond this moment?

Photo by DerrickT
18.

You cannot study the reality which does not appear

Photo by Pulpolux !!!
19.

This reality which is born now arises and falls away in a split second and never returns. It is only once in the cycle of birth and death.

Photo by Karen Roe
20.

Reality is like an unexpected guest

Photo by Fon-tina
21.

Me: "All realities are Anatta."
My wife: "The reality in front of me is a nutter!"

Photo by silverfox09
22.

Untitled Slide

Alan Weller