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by AlexCoventry
3470 days ago
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It depends who they are. (Ha ha.) That's one perspective on anatta, but not a particularly useful one. You may find this interesting: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/selves... If you've ever taken an introductory course on Buddhism, you've
probably heard this question: "If there is no self, who does the
kamma, who receives the results of kamma?" This understanding turns
the teaching on not-self into a teaching on no self, and then takes
no self as the framework and the teaching on kamma as something that
doesn't fit in the framework. But in the way the Buddha taught these
topics, the teaching on kamma is the framework and the teaching of
not-self fits into that framework as a type of action. In other
words, assuming that there really are skillful and unskillful
actions, what kind of action is the perception of self? What kind of
action is the perception of not-self?
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