#anatta
Prismatic Cosmos (by t*tomorrow)
Then Ven. Ananda went to the Blessed One and on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One, “It is said that the world is empty, the world is empty, lord. In what respect is it said that the world is empty?”
“Insofar as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ananda, that the world is empty.”
— Buddha, Suñña Sutta, SN 35.85
↝https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2019/09/intro-to-emptiness.html↜
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“Whatever calamities there are, and whatever sorrows and fears come to the world, they are all the result of attachment to “self.” Why is that attachment mine?
Not having extinguished “self,” one is not able to extinguish sorrow; just as one who has not extinguished a fire is not able to extinguish the burning.
It follows that for the sake of tranquilizing my own sorrow, and for the tranquilizing of the other’s sorrow, I give myself to others and I accept others like myself.”
— Śāntideva, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
Continued @ https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/01/extinguishing-fire.html
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Invoking fire through simile, Śāntideva seers us with the burning reality that plagues our world, both literally and figuratively. While raging fire spreads across the planet, the heat of violence and conflict seethes and ferments in its midst. What can be done to douse the flames?
Continued→https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/01/extinguishing-fire.html
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