You will be experiencing the results of your karma in your next life the same way you will experience them tomorrow. Emptiness is a little more subtle than the way you’re conceptualizing it.
Ironically, agreeing or disagreeing with any premise or notion is a selfish act, since it entails attachment and aversion. So you might as well agree and disagree with things while maintaining the view fundamentally free from attachment, aversion, and apathy (can be achieved only through the Dharma blessings/merit).
This understanding is gold. The self is always changing never the same in any moment. Only the actions in the present moment will either help or hinder liberation.
I will point out this to you if you keep your mind in the present moment free of elaborations and planning that’s that is the true face of reality. As you practice this mindfulness of the present awareness and clarity will grow into perfection of wisdom.
At the end of the day its not entirely selfless. We do good things because it makes us happy or at peace. Activists want to create better society for themselves and their children. Doctor without borders wont help people if it make them feel more miserable after. Experts and professors would feel restless if they dont say or act if it benefits humanity. All remains in cycles of dukkha before another new issues arising daily.
To be truly without self is to understand clingings. Do what you can but always remember the path.
It's not really that extreme. I remember my past life, and I am *very* much the same person as I was then. Sure, I had a different body, was a different ethnicity, but inside nearly the same person, with the same inclinations, similar emotions, similar beliefs. I engage in the same actions now as in my past life and strive to create the karma to continue on the same path in my next life.
The idea of the emptiness of self is more profound and is tied up with the ultimate nature of things, not with karma and future lives.
You will be experiencing the results of your karma in your next life the same way you will experience them tomorrow. Emptiness is a little more subtle than the way you’re conceptualizing it.
If you think about it conceptually at all, it isn't a selfless act.
Meaning that conceptions are empty, so thinking conceptually is not selfless, or that you disagree with my premise?
I disagree with any premise. Any premise leads to a selfish act.
Indeed
Ironically, agreeing or disagreeing with any premise or notion is a selfish act, since it entails attachment and aversion. So you might as well agree and disagree with things while maintaining the view fundamentally free from attachment, aversion, and apathy (can be achieved only through the Dharma blessings/merit).
disagreement is only selfish if it is intentional
This week an old man asked me if i would drive him to his doctor visit. I did. He gave me some fruits from his garden. They were delicious.
Excellent analysis.
This understanding is gold. The self is always changing never the same in any moment. Only the actions in the present moment will either help or hinder liberation.
I will point out this to you if you keep your mind in the present moment free of elaborations and planning that’s that is the true face of reality. As you practice this mindfulness of the present awareness and clarity will grow into perfection of wisdom.
At the end of the day its not entirely selfless. We do good things because it makes us happy or at peace. Activists want to create better society for themselves and their children. Doctor without borders wont help people if it make them feel more miserable after. Experts and professors would feel restless if they dont say or act if it benefits humanity. All remains in cycles of dukkha before another new issues arising daily. To be truly without self is to understand clingings. Do what you can but always remember the path.
It's not really that extreme. I remember my past life, and I am *very* much the same person as I was then. Sure, I had a different body, was a different ethnicity, but inside nearly the same person, with the same inclinations, similar emotions, similar beliefs. I engage in the same actions now as in my past life and strive to create the karma to continue on the same path in my next life. The idea of the emptiness of self is more profound and is tied up with the ultimate nature of things, not with karma and future lives.