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**Bwvapays** · 06-28-2011, 11:57 PM

Is it that we don't have a 'fixed', permanent self or identity?

Yes, goes around that. Try to contemplate how things are impermanent by nature... and of those "things" ours is too. So to get attached, to cling to an identity or to crave for it... sooner or later will lead to Dukkha. Things are at the end, all, unsatisfactory. Discerning about that will prevent us from painful and useless attachments.

At least this is my actual understanding...

06-28-2011, 11:57 PM	#2
Bwvapays Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 465 Senior Member	Is it that we don't have a 'fixed', permanent self or identity? Yes, goes around that. Try to contemplate how things are impermanent by nature... and of those "things" ours is too. So to get attached, to cling to an identity or to crave for it... sooner or later will lead to Dukkha. Things are at the end, all, unsatisfactory. Discerning about that will prevent us from painful and useless attachments. At least this is my actual understanding...
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