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**deandrecooke** · 08-24-2011, 07:06 PM

It can be possible to get a general idea of anatta through intellectual reasoning but this is like professing the taste of an apple without really tasting one

Personally I've found that my current understanding of anatta has been arrived at through a combination of intellectual reasoning and meditation practice.

Its also my opinion that eventually meditation doesn't just take place on the cushion but that meditation and post-meditation will merge together with other insights one has gathered through one's practice on the path.

08-24-2011, 07:06 PM	#12
deandrecooke Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 493 Senior Member	It can be possible to get a general idea of anatta through intellectual reasoning but this is like professing the taste of an apple without really tasting one Personally I've found that my current understanding of anatta has been arrived at through a combination of intellectual reasoning and meditation practice. Its also my opinion that eventually meditation doesn't just take place on the cushion but that meditation and post-meditation will merge together with other insights one has gathered through one's practice on the path.
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