notes
- Sūnyatā refers to anattā in Theravada Buddhism
- Sūnyatā: devoidness, emptiness, hollowness (空)
- Anatta: no-self, opposite of Ātman - eternal self
quotes
Dukkha is not suffering, but rather the impermanence of life. Happy feelings or conditions are not permanent. It is an idea of realism as opposed to optimism or pessimism. There is no “I”, only a sense of it created by the Five Aggregates: matter, sensations, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. — What the Buddha Taught
Our concept of self arises when we have concepts about things that are not self.