Tag: self

Shabda Articles
Shabda Articles

From blind to selfless selfing

By Dhammaloka on Thu, 28 Aug, 2025 - 12:51

There are four parts to the essay posted here as a pdf.

First, I will outline what I mean by ‘selfing’ and ‘minding’ and in what sense the way Buddhists tend to talk about self and mind seems problematic to me. Can we usefully think about ‘self’ in a way that does justice to the Buddhist project? I will argue that to be alive is to be engaged in a continuous process of ‘selfing’ by which an organism, in unbroken interaction with...

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Buddhist Action
Buddhist Action

Breaking the silence, changing the story: Buddhism versus neoliberalism

By Yogaratna on Fri, 11 May, 2018 - 06:47

I’ve written a very brief introduction to neoliberal ideas and some of the ways they affect the current global political and ecological situation.  It explores many ways Buddhism and Buddhists are already presenting profound challenges to the neoliberal story - and celebrates this range of responses.  There’s a great deal of excellent work already going on - and a better world is certainly possible.  From meditating in the natural world to rewilding to non-violent direct action for older people (to...

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Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

FBA Podcast: Breaking the Bonds of Selfhood

By Rijupatha on Sun, 26 Jul, 2015 - 03:44

This week’s FBA Podcast is “Breaking the Bonds of Selfhood Through Serving the Dhamma (with translation in Hindi)” by Parami. Here is a strong, beautiful talk by Parami from the final day of the Triratna Buddhist Order’s International Convention 2013 in India, bringing us back to the task in hand as members of the Order and as Buddhists: engaging with breaking the fetters and weakening the hold that self-clinging exerts upon our minds and our ways of...
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Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: Understanding Anatta

By Rijupatha on Thu, 12 Mar, 2015 - 10:00
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Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is titled: Understanding Anatta. Tackling such terms as self, I, individual, and ego, reveals that each can have both a positive and a negative connotation. What is the self, and how can we cultivate true Individuality?
Talk given in 1970.

From the talk “Individuality, True and False”, by Sangharakshita, part...