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Time to refresh my #introduction as it's been a while since the first one!

See profile for some basics. These days I'm unemployed but gardening a bit, recovering from 37 years of industrial burnout, and surviving 6-7 years of bladder cancer.

Meeting that with all the wisdom I can find on #anatta, #nonduality, #nonself, #dzogchen, #bodhicitta, #bodhisattva, #buddhism :)

Used to be an #electronics #design #engineer and loved it.

We're better off together. Question those who would divide us.

Time to refresh my #introduction as it's been a while since the first one!

See profile for some basics. These days I'm unemployed but gardening a bit, recovering from 37 years of industrial burnout, and surviving 6-7 years of bladder cancer.

Meeting that with all the wisdom I can find on #anatta, #nonduality, #nonself, #dzogchen, #bodhicitta, #bodhisattva, #buddhism :)

Used to be an #electronics #design #engineer and loved it.

We're better off together. Question those who would divide us.

Ven Tuvaṭaka: 'Seeing in what way is a monk unbound, clinging to nothing in the world?'

Buddha: 'He should put an entire stop to the root of objectification-classifications: "I am the thinker"'

(Aṭṭhakavagga 14, Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu's translation).

https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/StNp/StNp4_14.html
#buddhism #nirvana #nibbana #clinging #craving #desire #objectification #noself #anatta #atthakavagga #thanissarobhikkhu

The #DefaultModeNetwork constructs our sense of continuous self through autobiographical narrative and self-referential processing. #Buddhist #meditation practices reduce #DMN activity, correlating with experiences of #anattā (#NonSelf). This convergence between #contemplative insight and #neuroscience reveals the constructed, dynamic nature of ego. Here's a brief overview:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-16-default_mode_network/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

The #DefaultModeNetwork constructs our sense of continuous self through autobiographical narrative and self-referential processing. #Buddhist #meditation practices reduce #DMN activity, correlating with experiences of #anattā (#NonSelf). This convergence between #contemplative insight and #neuroscience reveals the constructed, dynamic nature of ego. Here's a brief overview:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-16-default_mode_network/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

After surveying #Buddhism's #historical and #philosophical claims, the next posts will outline its scientific relevance. Let's begin with #Neuroscience and split-brain research, which under controlled conditions can reveal dissociable streams of perception and agency, challenging the idea of a unified subject. This empirical fragmentation converges with Buddhism's #anatta, the self as an impermanent, constructed #process rather than an enduring entity.

https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-16-anatta_and_neuroscience/

#WeekendStories

After surveying #Buddhism's #historical and #philosophical claims, the next posts will outline its scientific relevance. Let's begin with #Neuroscience and split-brain research, which under controlled conditions can reveal dissociable streams of perception and agency, challenging the idea of a unified subject. This empirical fragmentation converges with Buddhism's #anatta, the self as an impermanent, constructed #process rather than an enduring entity.

https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-16-anatta_and_neuroscience/

#WeekendStories

#Menander I (#Milinda) features in the #Milindapañha as an inquisitive #Hellenistic king debating with the monk #Nāgasena. The text highlights #Buddhism's rational, dialogical method—using analogy and debate to clarify #nonself (#anatta), #rebirth, and #ethics — and its openness to intercultural #philosophical exchange. Here's a brief exploration of his legacy:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-11-menander_and_the_milindapanha/

#WeekendStories

#Menander I (#Milinda) features in the #Milindapañha as an inquisitive #Hellenistic king debating with the monk #Nāgasena. The text highlights #Buddhism's rational, dialogical method—using analogy and debate to clarify #nonself (#anatta), #rebirth, and #ethics — and its openness to intercultural #philosophical exchange. Here's a brief exploration of his legacy:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-11-menander_and_the_milindapanha/

#WeekendStories

Pale Green Pants With Anatta Inside

Parental guidance suggested.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2017/04/pale-green-pants-with-anatta-inside.html

#anatta, #book, #Buddhism, #DrSeuss, #GatelessGate, #Halloween, #Zen

#Buddhist #cosmology adapts and critiques #Indian models, emphasizing #impermanence (#anicca), non-self (#anatta), and #DependentOrigination. Unlike #Hindu cosmology, it rejects creator gods and views cosmic realms as conditioned, not ultimate. Liberation, #nirvāna, lies beyond cosmological cycles. Here is a brief overview:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-09-14-buddhist_vs_indian_cosmology/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Buddhist #cosmology adapts and critiques #Indian models, emphasizing #impermanence (#anicca), non-self (#anatta), and #DependentOrigination. Unlike #Hindu cosmology, it rejects creator gods and views cosmic realms as conditioned, not ultimate. Liberation, #nirvāna, lies beyond cosmological cycles. Here is a brief overview:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-09-14-buddhist_vs_indian_cosmology/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Fudōshin (不動心), the "immovable mind", is a central #Zen concept denoting inner stability and #equanimity amid change. Rooted in Buddhist teachings on #impermanence (#anicca) and non-self (#anatta), it embodies resilience not through suppression, but through adaptive presence and non-reactivity. In this post, we briefly explore its significance in Zen practice and philosophy.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-08-06-fudoshin/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Fudōshin (不動心), the "immovable mind", is a central #Zen concept denoting inner stability and #equanimity amid change. Rooted in Buddhist teachings on #impermanence (#anicca) and non-self (#anatta), it embodies resilience not through suppression, but through adaptive presence and non-reactivity. In this post, we briefly explore its significance in Zen practice and philosophy.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-08-06-fudoshin/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Mushin (無心), the #Zen state of "#NoMind", denotes a mind free from grasping and reactivity, enabling spontaneous, lucid action. Unlike mere blankness, mushin embodies refined #awareness and non-conceptual clarity, aligning with Buddhist ideals of #equanimity and #NonSelf (#anatta). Exceptional in linking #meditative insight to everyday activity. Here is a brief overview of its meaning and practice in Zen.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-08-04-mushin/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Mushin (無心), the #Zen state of "#NoMind", denotes a mind free from grasping and reactivity, enabling spontaneous, lucid action. Unlike mere blankness, mushin embodies refined #awareness and non-conceptual clarity, aligning with Buddhist ideals of #equanimity and #NonSelf (#anatta). Exceptional in linking #meditative insight to everyday activity. Here is a brief overview of its meaning and practice in Zen.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-08-04-mushin/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#ShinjinDatsuraku ("dropping off body and mind") is a pivotal #Zen concept expressing the experiential release of self-attachment and dualistic identification. Central to #Dōgen's teaching, it reflects the Buddhist insight into non-self (#anatta) and #impermanence (#anicca), emphasizing liberation through letting go rather than accumulation. This post briefly explores its meaning and practice in Zen.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-08-04-shinjin_datsuraku/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#ShinjinDatsuraku ("dropping off body and mind") is a pivotal #Zen concept expressing the experiential release of self-attachment and dualistic identification. Central to #Dōgen's teaching, it reflects the Buddhist insight into non-self (#anatta) and #impermanence (#anicca), emphasizing liberation through letting go rather than accumulation. This post briefly explores its meaning and practice in Zen.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-08-04-shinjin_datsuraku/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Nāgārjuna, founder of the #Madhyamaka school, clarified the Buddhist doctrine of #emptiness (#śūnyatā) as the absence of intrinsic essence in all phenomena. His dialectical method deconstructs fixed views, reinforcing #DependentOrigination and non-self (#anatta) as central to liberation in #Mahayana thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-nagarjuna/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Nāgārjuna, founder of the #Madhyamaka school, clarified the Buddhist doctrine of #emptiness (#śūnyatā) as the absence of intrinsic essence in all phenomena. His dialectical method deconstructs fixed views, reinforcing #DependentOrigination and non-self (#anatta) as central to liberation in #Mahayana thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-nagarjuna/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

The #Yogācāra school's eightfold model of #consciousness (#vijñāna) offers a detailed Buddhist framework for understanding perception, identity, and delusion. By analyzing layers from sensory awareness to the unconscious "#storehouse" (#ĀlayaVijñāna), it provides a unique #psychoanalytic system without a permanent self (#anatta):

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-07-vijnanas/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism #Psychology #Psychoanalysis #BuddhistPhilosophy #CognitiveScience

The #Yogācāra school's eightfold model of #consciousness (#vijñāna) offers a detailed Buddhist framework for understanding perception, identity, and delusion. By analyzing layers from sensory awareness to the unconscious "#storehouse" (#ĀlayaVijñāna), it provides a unique #psychoanalytic system without a permanent self (#anatta):

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-07-vijnanas/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism #Psychology #Psychoanalysis #BuddhistPhilosophy #CognitiveScience

In #Buddhism, #avidyā (#ignorance) is not mere lack of knowledge, but a deep-rooted misperception of reality — especially regarding impermanence (#anicca), non-self (#anatta), and causality. Overcoming avidyā is central to liberation, requiring transformative insight rather than intellectual learning.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-02-avidya/

#WeekendStories

In #Buddhism, #avidyā (#ignorance) is not mere lack of knowledge, but a deep-rooted misperception of reality — especially regarding impermanence (#anicca), non-self (#anatta), and causality. Overcoming avidyā is central to liberation, requiring transformative insight rather than intellectual learning.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-02-avidya/

#WeekendStories

#Prajñā, or wisdom, is central in #Buddhism as direct, experiential insight into reality’s impermanence (#anicca), non-self (#anatta), and emptiness (#sunyata). Distinct from intellectual knowledge, it is cultivated through study, reflection, and #meditation, and is inseparable from #compassion. In this post, I summarized key aspects of Prajñā across different Buddhist traditions, its role in the #NobleEightfoldPath, and its significance in daily life:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-04-prajna/

#WeekendStories

#Prajñā, or wisdom, is central in #Buddhism as direct, experiential insight into reality’s impermanence (#anicca), non-self (#anatta), and emptiness (#sunyata). Distinct from intellectual knowledge, it is cultivated through study, reflection, and #meditation, and is inseparable from #compassion. In this post, I summarized key aspects of Prajñā across different Buddhist traditions, its role in the #NobleEightfoldPath, and its significance in daily life:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-04-prajna/

#WeekendStories

#Compassion (#karuṇā) and loving-kindness (#mettā) are central in #Buddhism, seen not just as emotions but as cultivated dispositions rooted in the doctrines of non-self (#anatta) and #interdependence. Their practice bridges ethical conduct and meditative insight, forming the foundation for both personal transformation and social action. In this post, we explore their philosophical underpinnings and practical implications in the Buddhist tradition:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-01-compassion/

#WeekendStories

#Compassion (#karuṇā) and loving-kindness (#mettā) are central in #Buddhism, seen not just as emotions but as cultivated dispositions rooted in the doctrines of non-self (#anatta) and #interdependence. Their practice bridges ethical conduct and meditative insight, forming the foundation for both personal transformation and social action. In this post, we explore their philosophical underpinnings and practical implications in the Buddhist tradition:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-01-compassion/

#WeekendStories

#DependentOrigination (paṭicca-samuppāda) is a central Buddhist doctrine describing how all phenomena arise and cease due to interdependent causes and conditions. Through the twelve links (#nidanas), it explains the emergence of suffering (#dukkha) and the path (#magga) to its cessation, emphasizing impermanence (#anicca) and the absence of a permanent self (#anatta):

https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-05-31-dependent_origination/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#DependentOrigination (paṭicca-samuppāda) is a central Buddhist doctrine describing how all phenomena arise and cease due to interdependent causes and conditions. Through the twelve links (#nidanas), it explains the emergence of suffering (#dukkha) and the path (#magga) to its cessation, emphasizing impermanence (#anicca) and the absence of a permanent self (#anatta):

https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-05-31-dependent_origination/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

The #FiveAggregates (#skhandhas) in #Buddhism offer a profound analysis of the self, revealing it as a dynamic process rather than a fixed entity. This framework deconstructs the illusion of a permanent self by examining form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. In Buddhist thought, understanding these leads to insight into impermanence (#anicca) and non-self (#anatta), guiding toward liberation from suffering (#dukkha):

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-05-30-skandha/

#WeekendStories

The #FiveAggregates (#skhandhas) in #Buddhism offer a profound analysis of the self, revealing it as a dynamic process rather than a fixed entity. This framework deconstructs the illusion of a permanent self by examining form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. In Buddhist thought, understanding these leads to insight into impermanence (#anicca) and non-self (#anatta), guiding toward liberation from suffering (#dukkha):

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-05-30-skandha/

#WeekendStories

The Buddhist doctrine of non-self (#anatta) challenges the notion of a permanent, independent self, proposing instead that identity is a dynamic process without fixed essence. This radical view distinguishes #Buddhism from many Western philosophies and offers a unique path to liberation from suffering.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-05-29-anatta/

#WeekendStories

The Buddhist doctrine of non-self (#anatta) challenges the notion of a permanent, independent self, proposing instead that identity is a dynamic process without fixed essence. This radical view distinguishes #Buddhism from many Western philosophies and offers a unique path to liberation from suffering.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-05-29-anatta/

#WeekendStories

The Three Marks of Existence — impermanence (#anicca), suffering (#dukkha), and non-self (#anatta) — form the core of the Buddhist understanding of reality. In Buddhist thought, these principles reveal the nature of existence and the true roots of suffering. I have summarized key aspects of this perspective in a new post here:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-05-24-three_marks_of_existence/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

The Three Marks of Existence — impermanence (#anicca), suffering (#dukkha), and non-self (#anatta) — form the core of the Buddhist understanding of reality. In Buddhist thought, these principles reveal the nature of existence and the true roots of suffering. I have summarized key aspects of this perspective in a new post here:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-05-24-three_marks_of_existence/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

Gone, gone.

Disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2024/04/gone-gone.html

#anatta, #Buddha, #Buddhism, #hermitpractice, #impermanence, #Palicanon, #sangha, #sutra, #Thailand, #Zen

Gone, Gone

Disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2024/04/gone-gone.html

#anatta, #Buddha, #Buddhism, #hermitpractice, #impermanence, #PaliCanon, #sangha, #sutra, #Thailand, #Zen

#Buddhism #anatta #NoSelf #anattvada #Nagarjuna
Introduction to the complex Buddhist concept of 'no-self, anatta and 'emptiness', sunyatta.
https://youtu.be/uCldjIVqxAU?si=1_kF0cbgD_UCauEr

#Buddhism #NoSelf #anatta #selflessness
"Neuroscience learns what Buddhism has known for ages: There is no constant self."

Upworthy:
Neuroscience learns what Buddhism has known for ages: There is no constant self

"Proving that science and religion can, in fact, overlap, University of British Columbia researcher Evan Thompson has confirmed the Buddhist teaching of the not-self, or 'anatta,' is more than just a theory."
https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscience-learns-what-buddhism-has-known-for-ages-there-is-no-constant-self-rp

#Buddhism #anatta #selflessness
"There is no constant self..."

Upworthy:
Neuroscience learns what Buddhism has known for ages: There is no constant self

"Proving that science and religion can, in fact, overlap, University of British Columbia researcher Evan Thompson has confirmed the Buddhist teaching of the not-self, or 'anatta,' is more than just a theory."
https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscience-learns-what-buddhism-has-known-for-ages-there-is-no-constant-self-rp

#Buddhism #Selflessness #Anattā
"The teaching of anattā, or nonself, is considered the most liberating tenet of the Buddhist teachings."

Experience the Truth of No Self - Lions Roar

"When we see ourselves as separate, we’re limited, says Rebecca Bradshaw. In experiencing the truth of nonself, we free our hearts and minds."
https://www.lionsroar.com/experience-truth-no-self/?utm_content=buffer29391&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

LIVE Dhamma talk with Ajahn Sādaro on anatta (non-self) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSfsmDpt8A #Buddhism #DhammaTalk #Theravada #Buddhist #dhamma #BhanteSadaro #anatta #nonSelf

Macho meditation.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2023/04/trash-talk.html

#Zen #anatta #meditation

The downside of excessive self-preoccupation...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257757068_Self-Referential_Processing_Rumination_and_Cortical_Midline_Structures_in_Major_Depression

#psychology #anatta #buddhism

...you should train yourself thus: In reference to the seen, there will be only the seen. In reference to the heard, only the heard. In reference to the sensed, only the sensed. In reference to the cognized, only the cognized. [Then] there is no you in connection with that. When there is no you in connection with that, there is no you there. When there is no you there, you are neither here nor yonder nor between the two. This, just this, is the end of stress.
-Bāhiya Sutta
#buddhism #anatta

‘Anatta literally means not-self.
Bad translations are no Soul, no Ego.
Belief of self is so deep it’s thought of as real. Awakening dissolves the idea of both self and not self.
Emptiness (Sunyatā) is a synonym for the insight of seeing not-self (anatta).’
Everyday #Buddhism

https://buddhismnow.com/2022/12/03/morning-meditation-anatta-literally-means/

#Emptiness #Sunyatā #Sunyata #anatta

‘Anatta literally means not-self.
Bad translations are no Soul, no Ego.
Belief of self is so deep it’s thought of as real. Awakening dissolves the idea of both self and not self.
Emptiness (Sunyatā) is a synonym for the insight of seeing not-self (anatta).’
Everyday #Buddhism

https://buddhismnow.com/2022/12/03/morning-meditation-anatta-literally-means/

#Emptiness #Sunyatā #Sunyata #anatta