No-Self, One-Self, All-Self

^z 20th July 2023 at 9:24pm

Interesting questions seem to revolve around the challenge of self and how (or if?) to frame it:

  • No-Self — "... centered on no particular thing, but on all things ..." (Charlotte Joko Beck)
  • One-Self — "... given responsibility, over time, so that it can reliably be there to take responsibility ...." (Daniel Dennett)
  • All-Self — "... folded into the universe and participate in its unfolding ..." (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

... perhaps undefined, unanswerable challenges of free will, agency, worthiness, existence, awareness, attachment, identity — perhaps illuminated by thinking about the absence-or-presence of other "selves" — and perhaps worth thinking (and not-thinking?) about!

(cf Unselfing (2009-01-14), Unselfing Again (2009-11-01), Nonattachment to I (2012-01-15), Misplaced Concreteness (2013-07-02), Anatman Living (2013-07-13), Bodhichitta, Maitri, Shunyata (2014-07-16), No-Self and the Space of Wonder (2014-10-20), No-Self (2014-12-25), Befriending the Self (2015-05-15), ...) - ^z - 2019-12-02