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**Bymnbypeten** · 12-07-2011, 05:04 PM

Non-self is usually understood through impermanence and the interconnected nature of all things. You are constantly changing so there is not a consistent you/self. You are also completely dependent on the world around you and could never exist without everything else. In Buddhism it's taught that everything has the nature of non-self. That's my understanding of it at least. I'm fairly new to Buddhism.

i 100% agree with you. my high school teacher came in one day and said as he was riding his bike across the bridge that connects louisville to indy and for the first time he noticed he was not crossing the same river he did yesterday. the water is always different, the mud under the water is different. its a totally different river then the day before. im pretty sure he also realized the same is true for everything, everything changes just like the "self". but my problem is, is it still not a river, a body of moving water. the "self" changes from the start but it still had a start right? like if you put up a wall you start from the bottom and work your way up, the soul starts at the beginning and transforms, but its still apart of everything right.

i can see the self as being one with everything, but not so much non existent. if that make sense.

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Bymnbypeten Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 348 Senior Member	Non-self is usually understood through impermanence and the interconnected nature of all things. You are constantly changing so there is not a consistent you/self. You are also completely dependent on the world around you and could never exist without everything else. In Buddhism it's taught that everything has the nature of non-self. That's my understanding of it at least. I'm fairly new to Buddhism. i 100% agree with you. my high school teacher came in one day and said as he was riding his bike across the bridge that connects louisville to indy and for the first time he noticed he was not crossing the same river he did yesterday. the water is always different, the mud under the water is different. its a totally different river then the day before. im pretty sure he also realized the same is true for everything, everything changes just like the "self". but my problem is, is it still not a river, a body of moving water. the "self" changes from the start but it still had a start right? like if you put up a wall you start from the bottom and work your way up, the soul starts at the beginning and transforms, but its still apart of everything right. i can see the self as being one with everything, but not so much non existent. if that make sense.
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