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text taken from the Big View.com

The body is mortal and when it dies ,counsciousness and all mental activities cease.That is why there is no no soul.The idea of a soul is simply an extention of the self.Soul is the immortal version of
the self that supposedly survives physical death.Since we know that consciousness is a function of our nervous system,it seems difficult that the conscious self survives death.Hence ,Buddhists deny the reality of both self and soul.The idea of an abididng self is deceptive ,because it is derivedfrom enlightened reasoning.The word self simply provides a reference frame for the mind-body phenomena of sentient beings.We usually identify it with our body and the steam of consciousness induced by sense perceptions and thoughts.In reality ,what we call self is neither abiding nor detached from the rest of the world and other beings.Buddhists call this the "neither self or non-self"

The next post of this thread will explain what is reborn if not the self.

loong
simple buddhist.

To all or none,

When Death my great friend, comes for our meeting,my only wish is to leave a better karma ,that the one ,this carrier received.

loong
simple buddhist

To all or none,

Text from The Big View.

WHAT IS REBORN IF NOT THE "SELF"

If the idea of nonself sounds odd,then it must sound even more curious that non-selfcan be reborn .There is seeming contradiction between the canon of rebirth and that of the non-self which even many dedicated Buddhists find difficult to understand . The contradiction is,however ,only on the surface and can be solved if one pictures the self as the result of KARMIC formation .This can be put into less abstract words:If we imagine the world as an ocean ,we are like the ripples on the ocean .Formations like ripples and waves accur,because of wind tides, and other kinetic forces.I the Buddhist analogy ,the Universe is in motion due to karmic forces .A ripple ,a wave or a billow may seem as an individual entity for a moment ,creating the illusion that it has a self, but it is gone in the next moment.The truth is that all individuals are one.A ripple is a tempory phenomenom; it is just water in motion . We know that kinetic energy causes wave forms on a body of water and it would be ridiculous to say that A single ripple or wave hasa self.

The last part tomorrow and my comments.

loong
simple buddhist