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**illignocearia** · 07-29-2011, 10:21 PM

Definitely not bringing self in, that's what old-school transmigration does, I think.

ANd so is "new-school" transmigration.

OK, without a soul, what is there associated with this body that is unique to it so that we might call it "me" and that might transmigrate? Yeah. New-school.

The moment-to-moment phenomena emanating from this body and its behavior. That's it. No fixed identity or being, nothing permanent, just the phenomena. "You" are whatever the 5 khandas are doing at the moment; nothing more can be found. Yeah. AN "Atman-that-is-not-an-Atman".

The teacher in the Milinda Panha sutta is directing his being, his behavior, to the student. Students have different abilities, and a student who perfectly understands the teacher can be said to have the teacher reborn in him. The teacher in MP is teaching hinduism.

The traditional belief that the lama's spirit (or something) is somehow reborn in a young boy whom he'd never met is, as far as I can tell, not in line with what the Buddha taught about anatta. And so is "new-school" transmigration.

07-29-2011, 10:21 PM	#16
illignocearia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 554 Senior Member	Definitely not bringing self in, that's what old-school transmigration does, I think. ANd so is "new-school" transmigration. OK, without a soul, what is there associated with this body that is unique to it so that we might call it "me" and that might transmigrate? Yeah. New-school. The moment-to-moment phenomena emanating from this body and its behavior. That's it. No fixed identity or being, nothing permanent, just the phenomena. "You" are whatever the 5 khandas are doing at the moment; nothing more can be found. Yeah. AN "Atman-that-is-not-an-Atman". The teacher in the Milinda Panha sutta is directing his being, his behavior, to the student. Students have different abilities, and a student who perfectly understands the teacher can be said to have the teacher reborn in him. The teacher in MP is teaching hinduism. The traditional belief that the lama's spirit (or something) is somehow reborn in a young boy whom he'd never met is, as far as I can tell, not in line with what the Buddha taught about anatta. And so is "new-school" transmigration.
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