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Kids' Messages: A Sorrow-free Life
When Joyce asked for a puppy and got a baby brother instead, how I wonder, would she feel? Sad, maybe disappointed with God too. Anatta (Pāli) or anātman (Sanskrit) means non-self or absence of separate self. If there is no self, which comes to mean there is no Joyce, there probably won't be room for sadness or dissappointment, which means there is no dukkha. The fact that there is Joyce suggest that there is self but according to Buddhism, what is thought as self is actually an agglomeration of constantly changing physical and mental constituents (skandhas). Now, what does that means exactly, or is it enough that we get away with the idea of non-self, become selfless and live a sorrow-free life?
When Joyce asked for a puppy and got a baby brother instead, how I wonder, would she feel? Sad, maybe disappointed with God too. Anatta (Pāli) or anātman (Sanskrit) means non-self or absence of separate self. If there is no self, which comes to mean there is no Joyce, there probably won't be room for sadness or dissappointment, which means there is no dukkha. The fact that there is Joyce suggest that there is self but according to Buddhism, what is thought as self is actually an agglomeration of constantly changing physical and mental constituents (skandhas). Now, what does that means exactly, or is it enough that we get away with the idea of non-self, become selfless and live a sorrow-free life?
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