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**Lån-Penge** · 05-08-2011, 05:03 PM

For that matter, we personify Buddha by saying he was a person.

If "there is nothing that can be called 'me' or 'mine'" then who said it?

It is pretty clear that he was a person.

As I have found myself discussing often online, in my work as a psychiatric nurse I meet many people with mental illness who experience symptoms of acute, extreme anxiety - such as the phenomona of depersonalisation and derealisation, as well as the more disabling psychotic conditions in which individuals experience various types of hallucinations, and other types of altered perceptions which interefere with the ability to maintain a stable sense of identity and self in a conventional sense. This does not aid the ending of suffering in any way.

05-08-2011, 05:03 PM	#21
Lån-Penge Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 398 Senior Member	For that matter, we personify Buddha by saying he was a person. If "there is nothing that can be called 'me' or 'mine'" then who said it? It is pretty clear that he was a person. As I have found myself discussing often online, in my work as a psychiatric nurse I meet many people with mental illness who experience symptoms of acute, extreme anxiety - such as the phenomona of depersonalisation and derealisation, as well as the more disabling psychotic conditions in which individuals experience various types of hallucinations, and other types of altered perceptions which interefere with the ability to maintain a stable sense of identity and self in a conventional sense. This does not aid the ending of suffering in any way.
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