[blossomingtree]

Originally Posted by Gem

If we take it to a quantum or kalapa level, the thing you think is here as the same Gem has actually been destroyed and recreated gigtrillions of times whole writing this post. Of course the characteristics are recognisably similar, as this mind/body arises from volitions of the past mind. But nothing of last moment's Gem is here in this moment. Still, this santana, mind/body/personality is regarded as eternal, in a 'now and forever' sense, as the transformation, while yet having no self-substance which is continuous.

For someone who says they doesn't exist, you're very consistent lol


"..the one place where the Buddha was asked point-blank whether or not there was a self, he refused to answer. When later asked why, he said that to hold either that there is a self or that there is no self is to fall into extreme forms of wrong view that make the path of Buddhist practice impossible."

No-self or Not-self

http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/sh...=118443&page=6
http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/sh...47#post1672747
http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/sh...67#post1673867
http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/sh...74#post1675774