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For example: Why can't someone postulate: 1) Self that is impermanent ( born 1950, died at 2030 for example )? ... What am I? What does it take for the sense of "I" to appear in my mind? Does this sense feel permanent? Can I rightly postulate that "I am impermanent"? To perceive...

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Wow. :shock: I can't believe it. I used to believe in no-self, but suddenly arguments for it lost their convincing power. :cry: So you believed that it is a matter of arguments? When some extraordinary thing is postulated, it better be well justified. But it is not about ideas but experiences. If y...

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binocular wrote: Here, things get a bit delicate, but one thing can be pointed out: the aggregates are not all there is. If they would be, ...

Right, there are the aggregates and in addition there is the intellect *irony*

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Have you tried to examine this "centre"? Is it possibly part of the experience rather than something apart from it? Yes, I tried to examine it. Of course it cannot be without 5 aggregates, but nevertheless the self as center of experience seems to "own" them. But what about the ...

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Have you tried to examine this "centre"? Is it possibly part of the experience rather than something apart from it? Yes, I tried to examine it. Of course it cannot be without 5 aggregates, but nevertheless the self as center of experience seems to "own" them. But what about the ...

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Wow. :shock: I can't believe it. I used to believe in no-self, but suddenly arguments for it lost their convincing power. :cry: So you believed that it is a matter of arguments? For example: Why can't someone postulate: 1) Self that is impermanent ( born 1950, died at 2030 for example )? 2) Self th...

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The whole issue seems to be depending on perceiving "true" vs "false" in the context of the ideas arising upon reading, seeing words of the teachings. "Is it really true?" seems to be the essence. Of course, when talking about spirituality and such, there can also be t...

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I'm not talking about convincing an outside experimenter. I'm talking about having an experimenter's mentality oneself - looking at oneself, at one's own life, one's own experiences with the kind of distance with which an outside observer would watch another person. Yes .... but how do you look at ...

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"skeptical doubt" is a kind of wavering, which however prevents involvement. Once "skeptical doubt" has been let go of practice based on the teachings may arise. Once practice based on the teachings has arisen desired effects may arise. Once desired effects have arisen applying t...

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I think there can be a middle way where you start with some faith or confidence in the Path and the teachings and try it out for yourself and see if it works; sanditthiko. I am skeptical (!) about such a verificationist approach. In a true experiment, there are constants and there are variables. Bu...

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just for illustration purposes ... "One who has conviction & belief ... is called a faith-follower : one who has entered the orderliness of rightness, entered the plane of people of integrity, transcended the plane of the run-of-the-mill. He is incapable of doing any deed by which he might ...

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... birth is the supporting condition for suffering, suffering is the supporting condition for faith, faith is the supporting condition for joy, ...
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .bodh.html

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A naive and over confident attitude is like driving a car without using the brake pedal. ... Depends. What may appear as "naive and over confident attitude" to a skeptical mind may just be the manifestation of a very successful "faith follower". :sage: Sure, it depends on how mu...

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barcsimalsi wrote:A naive and over confident attitude is like driving a car without using the brake pedal. ...

Depends. What may appear as "naive and over confident attitude" to a skeptical mind may just be the manifestation of a very successful "faith follower".

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Actually there is a type of (skeptical) doubt that is not a hindrance at all which refers to the conditioned arising of consciousnesses, both in early stages (identification of experience as this or that) and later stages (conditioned lines of thinking). In practice that means that each time conscio...

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