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ความคิดเห็นที่ 2 เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 02, 03:32
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This is another favorite book of mine.
There are many good explanations of many Buddhist concepts in this book. One is concerning the sublime or supreme truth of the principle of Anatta, "non-self". At the level of what we feel to be the truth or the fact - at the phenomenal level - we feel that we, ourselves, our Atta - exist, but deeper at another level of reality, nothing exists as a "Self".
This is one of the difficult ideas of Buddhism. The King asked the Monk on this matter, and the Monk asked the King how His Majesty came to see him. The King replied that he came to see the Monk in his royal chariot. The Monk asked the King: what is a chariot? Does "a chariot" exist by itself? Can we point ot the real essence of a chariot? Are wheels chariot? Or the axis? Or the body? Or the passengers' seat? Or the driver's seat? The King had to reply in the negative to all these questions, and in the end said there is no chariot without all these components. A chariot exists only when every part of it is considered together as a whole. So the term or the concept of "a chariot" is really meaningless in itself, it being only a compound of other things. The Monk explained that : So is this self. In ultimate reality there is no "King Milindra"; there is no "Venerable Nagasena"; there is no "me", no "you", no "her". There is no Self as such. What we conceive as Self is only a compound of many other things, coming together only temporarily.
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