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cappuccino wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 3:37 pm
Spiny Norman wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 8:20 amSame thing. If the world is empty of a self, then there is no self in the world.
The difference is subtle.
You fail to appreciate the difference.
There is no practical difference.

The Sunna Sutta says the world is empty of a self or anything pertaining to the world. So are you proposing a self outside the world? If so, some sutta support for this view would be useful.
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Again the difference is subtle.
And the difference must be appreciated.
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cappuccino wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:03 pm Again the difference is subtle.
And the difference must be appreciated.
If you really think there is a practical difference, then explain it clearly what it is.
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cappuccino wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:19 pm On Self, No Self, and Not-self
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html
You are avoiding a straightforward question ( again ).

The Sunna Sutta says: "the world is empty of a self, or anything pertaining to a self". What is the practical difference between that and "there is no self in the world"?

If you are proposing a self outside the world, then lets see some sutta passages which specifically support that view.
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If Buddha cannot help you, I cannot.
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cappuccino wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:26 pm If Buddha cannot help you, I cannot.
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There are three views. Self, no self, not-self.

Among those three, self and no self are extreme views.

Not-self is a middle view, between the extremes.
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The difference between saying there is no self and saying that everything I think of is not self is that it is possible for you to observe what you think of and determine that it is not self....your range of what you think of only includes the things you think of and it does not include the things which you do not think of. The things you do not think of are things which are out of range so it is not possible for you to determine if they are self or not.

IN summary: determening that there is no self is beyond range....determeing that you can not think of something which is self is within range since you can simply just sit and think of things and verify that you can not think of something which is self.

Not very artfully expressed and probably technically incorrect but I hope you get the idea.
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Do not speak thus. Do not misrepresent the Blessed One; for it is not good to misrepresent the Blessed One.
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cappuccino wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:21 pm Do not speak thus. Do not misrepresent the Blessed One; for it is not good to misrepresent the Blessed One.
If you are replying to me: I did not represent anyone. I just gave my ideas. This may surprise you but I actually think about what the buddha said.....and sometimes it leads me to have ideas on my own....and sometimes I present my very own ideas right here on this forum.
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chownah wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2017 8:40 amsometimes I present my very own ideas right here on this forum.
you misrepresent the teaching

it is half the teaching and half your "very own ideas"
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Spiny Norman wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:28 pm
cappuccino wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:26 pm If Buddha cannot help you, I cannot.
:shrug:
If I am to give cappuccino benefit of the doubt, I would say that his or her emptiness is the Venerable Nāgārjuna's emptiness, which is neither void nor substance, nor any combination of the two, nor something else.

Basically any 'stance' at all regarding Nibbāna, existence, or the self, etc, under those conditions (i.e. Madhyamaka), becomes a wrong view.
What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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cappuccino wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:52 pm
Spiny Norman wrote:I'm still not clear on what your position is here.
No self is an extreme view to be rejected. Self is an extreme view.

Not self is different in a subtle way. Body isn't self, mind isn't self, etc.
Surely the middle-way will lead one out of Samsara?
cappuccino wrote: Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:04 pm If you blow out a fire,
has reality itself disappeared with the fire?
Fire is fabricated and reality is unborn.....therefore reality hasn't disappeared!
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the truth is already true

form is not self already

hence nirvana is not annihilation
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