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Originally Posted by sky123
Who knows, I haven't read or heard all of their interpretations but I think that after stripping away what is not self they believe that mind stream is a self seeing it is carried over in rebirth. Different schools and individual Buddhist obviously have their own ideas.
' Some Tibetan scholars, such as the Sakya master Rendawa, who accept that there is such a thing as self or soul, the "kangsak ki dak" (Tib. gang zag gi bdag). However, the same word, the "kangsak ki dak," the self, or person, or personal self, or identity, is at the same time denied by many other scholars ' . Matthieu Ricard addresses this when he speaks of both the moment-to-moment stream of impermanent events and the continuous individual stream of consciousness. This “individual stream of consciousness” describes a “self” or “soul” beyond the aggregates. When awakened this is Buddha Nature..
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Well everyone has their own ideas, and 99% of them are crazy ideas, but not crazy enough to be true. Teehee.
Basically I think Gotama generally avoided the Brahamic teachings on 'who you really are', 'true self' etc, because his teaching was basically there is no self in any individual sense and the view that there is would lead only to despair. He can be quoted as saying, "Well, monks, I, too, do not see any such assumption of a self-theory from the acceptance of which there would not arise sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair."
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipi....022.nypo.html