--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > > >> This seems to correspond best with the central tenet of > > >> Buddhism, the doctrine of no-self. > > > > > > *A* central tenet of *some branches* of Buddhism. > > > > Yes, it is an unpopular idea. It is the tenet that is the > > first one to get buried out of sight. Not very many people > > like this idea. What we call the ego does not like this > > idea at all. > > Who or what is there in you that *does* like it? You're > not saying, as a no-self member of the Borg collective > and all, that you (uh) made a decision to like or not > like this, are you?
Another point you seem to be missing is that the sense of self doesn't *disappear*, it's just that one no longer identifies with it, as I understand it. Plus which, the language just isn't designed to express this properly. Some Neo-Advaitins substitute the workaround "This body" or "This entity" for "I." But that gets cumbersome and sounds dumb.
