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Stepping Out of Self-Deception: The Buddha's Liberating Teaching of No-Self
Rodney Smith
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Rodney Smith
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Publication Date:
2010
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Anatta
is the Buddhist teaching on the nonexistence of a permanent, independent self. It's a notoriously puzzling and elusive concept, usually leading to such questions as, "If I don't have a self, who's reading this sentence?" It's not that there's no self there, says Rodney Smith. It's just that the self that is reading this sentence is a configuration of elements that at one time did not exist and which at some point in the future will disperse. Even in its present existence, it's more a temporary arrangement of components rather than something solid.
Anatta
is a truth the Buddha considered to be absolutely essential to his teaching. Smith shows that understanding this truth can change the way you relate to the world, and that the perspective of selflessness is critically important for anyone involved in spiritual practice. Seeing it can be the key to getting past the idea that spirituality has something to do with self-improvement, and to accessing the joy of deep insight into reality.
Rodney Smith is the founding and guiding teacher of the Seattle Insight Meditation Society and a guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts. He leads classes and retreats throughout the United States. He is also the author of Lessons from the Dying, a book that grew out of the many years he spent in hospice work.
Contents:
stepping out of self-deception: the buddha's liberating teaching of NO-SELF
Foreword by Joseph Goldstein
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xii
1.
Aligned with Awakening
1
2.
The Sense-of-Self
17
3.
The View of Interconnection
32
4.
Finding Interconnection from the Pain of Contraction
45
5.
Questioning the Known
62
6.
Selfless Intention
75
7.
The Effort Needed
91
8.
Language Entrapping View
108
9.
Action from Emptiness
124
10.
Awakening through Livelihood, Stress, and Time
140
11.
Freeing Awareness from Self-Control
155
12.
Selfless Forgeries
168
13.
The Steady Mind
181
14.
The Resolution of Paradox
195
15.
Mature Awakening
207
Notes
221
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