Scientific endeavour by its very nature is generally small-minded; it focuses on a theory that it has dissected out from all of reality in order to investigate the truth or not of the theory in order to make predictions in order to control the variable/s.
As to no self, I don’t mean this on a day to day basis. I’m not going to tell the electricity company I won’t pay my bill because there is no self living at my home address. No self, I think, is an appropriate term to counteract the belief in a separate entity that acts out an existence on the stage of life, interacting or not at will (aside from the fact that both physically and mentally we do not have any fixed, permanent nature).
Take away the delusion of a separation between self and other and what are you left with? > the true self, which is the entire universe, undivided.
But this isn't something that I'll be trying on with the electricity company.
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As to no self, I don’t mean this on a day to day basis. I’m not going to tell the electricity company I won’t pay my bill because there is no self living at my home address. No self, I think, is an appropriate term to counteract the belief in a separate entity that acts out an existence on the stage of life, interacting or not at will (aside from the fact that both physically and mentally we do not have any fixed, permanent nature).
Take away the delusion of a separation between self and other and what are you left with? > the true self, which is the entire universe, undivided.
But this isn't something that I'll be trying on with the electricity company.
s.