Which sutta?

[dude_different]

Was it that had the Buddha speak of stopping to think in terms of 'me', and 'you'; etc? Something like that.

[Ben]

Could you please rephrase your question, I am having difficulty understanding you.

[daverupa]

[quote=""Snp 842"]'He who thinks himself equal (to others), or distinguished, or low, he for that very reason disputes; but he who is unmoved under those three conditions, for him (the notions) "equal" and "distinguished" do not exist.[/quote]

[cooran]

Hello dd,

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index-subject.html

Scroll down to Anatta and see if anything listed there rings a bell.

With metta,
Chris

[dagon]

You may find the answers you are look for here - if i understand you correctly.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... tself.html

metta
paul

[SamBodhi]

Hello dd,

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index-subject.html

Scroll down to Anatta and see if anything listed there rings a bell.

With metta,
Chris

I second this recommendation. I think that it is Anatta you are trying to investigate.


with Metta,
SamBodhi

[rohana]

Perhaps this?

• "There is the case where an uninstructed, run-of-the-mill person...does not discern what ideas are fit for attention, or what ideas are unfit for attention. This being so, he does not attend to ideas fit for attention, and attends [instead] to ideas unfit for attention. And what are the ideas unfit for attention that he attends to? Whatever ideas such that, when he attends to them, the unarisen effluent of sensuality arises, and the arisen effluent of sensuality increases; the unarisen effluent of becoming... the unarisen effluent of ignorance arises, and the arisen effluent of ignorance increases... This is how he attends inappropriately: 'Was I in the past? Was I not in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? Having been what, what was I in the past? Shall I be in the future? Shall I not be in the future? What shall I be in the future? How shall I be in the future? Having been what, what shall I be in the future?' Or else he is inwardly perplexed about the immediate present: 'Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? Where has this being come from? Where is it bound?'
  Sabbasava Sutta

And this:

• "When a disciple of the noble ones has seen well with right discernment this dependent co-arising & these dependently co-arisen phenomena as they are actually present, it is not possible that he would run after the past, thinking, 'Was I in the past? Was I not in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? Having been what, what was I in the past?' or that he would run after the future, thinking, 'Shall I be in the future? Shall I not be in the future? What shall I be in the future? How shall I be in the future? Having been what, what shall I be in the future?' or that he would be inwardly perplexed about the immediate present, thinking, 'Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? Where has this being come from? Where is it bound?' Such a thing is not possible. Why is that? Because the disciple of the noble ones has seen well with right discernment this dependent co-arising & these dependently co-arisen phenomena as they are actually present."
  Paccaya Sutta