Do we have a soul till Nibbana?

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Greetings Cappuccino,
cappuccino wrote: Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:10 pm
retrofuturist wrote: Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:23 pmall things are described as not-self, ergo they are not a soul.
Body isn't self, mind isn't self. And yet you have a body and mind.
They are to be regarded as "not-self"... not as something "you have".

If you wish to put your eggs into the soul basket, then be my guest, but don't think you can twist the Buddha's teaching to accommodate your soul theories.

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I'm pointing out the body is there. As is soul perhaps.

Try telling someone you don't have a body.
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Greetings Cappuccino,
cappuccino wrote: Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:13 pm I'm not twisting, I'm pointing out the body is there. As is soul.

Try telling someone you don't have a body.
The Noble Eightfold Path isn't about telling people such things.

Rather, it is about realizing the emptiness (sunnata) of anything that might possibly be regarded as "you" or "yours".

It goes against the grain, and isn't likely to win too many normie debates, but it is amenable to the winning of freedom and liberation.

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Anyway, there is no place in the scriptures that denies soul.
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If a soul existes until nibbana and then does not exist then that is text book case of annhilationism I think.
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The word soul causes problem because one approaches it according to the religion one is born in. Even non-practising Christians cannot help but think of soul as something that enters heaven (or hell) after death. I am not speaking of soul from point of view of Christian eschatology.

Here in OP it means little more than life itself, call it a part of one that gets born and reborn. An embryo has no life (no vedana, sanna, phasso, vinnana). But after few weeks the fetus which develops from the embryo does. Something changed. That change is what I called soul.

We have something that causes us to be born repeatedly. At Nibbana it is uprooted.

Does this go against Buddhist teachings?

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No_Mind wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:10 amDoes this go against Buddhist teachings?
Buddhism doesn't have a position on the soul.
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cappuccino wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:16 am
No_Mind wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:10 amDoes this go against Buddhist teachings?
Buddhism doesn't have a position on the soul.
Not soul.

My hypothesis written without the word soul -

We have something that causes us to be born repeatedly. At Nibbana it is uprooted.

Does this go against Buddhist teachings?

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Desire to delight here, causes rebirth.

Nirvana is the end, of that.
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cappuccino wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:21 am Desire to delight here, causes rebirth.

Nirvana is the end, of that.
And what if we call desire to delight .. desire to be reborn .. as soul? Which persists life after life and ceases at Nibbana?

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Buddhism has no position on soul.

Buddhism doesn't claim to know…
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No_Mind wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:28 am
cappuccino wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:21 am Desire to delight here, causes rebirth.

Nirvana is the end, of that.
And what if we call desire to delight .. desire to be reborn .. as soul? Which persists life after life and ceases at Nibbana?

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Buddhism denies the identity of being, but affirms the identity of the process.

http://www.acessoaoinsight.net/dhp/dhp1.php#N9

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cappuccino wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:16 am
No_Mind wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:10 amDoes this go against Buddhist teachings?
Buddhism doesn't have a position on the soul.
The Puggalavada did have some sort of soul theory, so I guess it depends on which Buddhist school...
Sujato wrote: Puggalavada is, according to the adherents of the school, not a contradiction with not-self: it is the correct explanation of not-self. Taking just the word or the idea and understanding it from the perspective of the opponents is not a very useful or kind way of understanding a religious philosophy.
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https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/ti ... ts/5531/13


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The teaching is not annihilation, get over it. :tongue:
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