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**Automobill** · 03-23-2010, 05:27 PM

Using the word 'emptiness' instead of 'non-self' seems to me to be putting the importance of theory ahead of application and practice.

I do not see it this way at all. I see little difference.

The Buddha taught 'not-self', like you say to a child: "don't touch that thing, it is not yours".

Emptiness is seeing the five aggregates or the sense bases are empty of any 'self' but examining those things with direct insight.

Little difference really.

Not-self (anatta) was taught together with impermanence & unsatisfactoriness where as emptiness (sunnata) was taught on its own.

03-23-2010, 05:27 PM	#23
Automobill Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 632 Senior Member	Using the word 'emptiness' instead of 'non-self' seems to me to be putting the importance of theory ahead of application and practice. I do not see it this way at all. I see little difference. The Buddha taught 'not-self', like you say to a child: "don't touch that thing, it is not yours". Emptiness is seeing the five aggregates or the sense bases are empty of any 'self' but examining those things with direct insight. Little difference really. Not-self (anatta) was taught together with impermanence & unsatisfactoriness where as emptiness (sunnata) was taught on its own.
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