Lesson 5: Western and Eastern

Give at least two sources in which we can analyze the perspective of each culture and country about the concept of the “self.”

Who are the western and eastern philosophers?

They give higher value with their personal rights.

They give higher value with their personal rights.

Who taught that all beings conditioned by causes (sankhara) are impermanent (anicca) and suffering (dukhha), and that not- self(anatta) characterizes all dhammas, meaning THERE IS NO “I”, “ME” or “MINE” in either the conditioned or the unconditioned?

According to buddhism, this three are marks of existence. What are these?

all things are not experienced; everything is conditioned and conditioning

It is our quest to forget about the SELF, forget about the cravings of the self, break the attachments you have with the world, and to renounce the self which is the cause of all suffering and in doing so, attain the state of what?

denies that there is anything called a “SELF”

all things are in constant state of flux; nothing lasts, and everything decays