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What’s in a Word? Anattā
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Selflessness vs. Impermanence: Week 2 of Rodney Smith’s “Selfless Practice”
In Week 2 of his Tricycle Retreat, “Selfless Practice,” Rodney Smith asks: “Who wants to deal with anatta [selflessness] when they could deal with impermanence?” It’s a fair question. Most of us, Smith contends, are much…
Are we kidding our selves?
In the January 22nd, 2010 Times Literary Supplement, the philosopher Peter Hacker considers Galen Strawson’s book Selves, which at 452 pages seems like a dense and weighty philosophical tome. In his review, Hacker traces the use…
Rodney Smith on anatta: No-Self, Not-Self, or Non-Self?
Rodney Smith’s new book Stepping Out of Self-Deception is going to be the subject of our upcoming Tricycle Community Book Club Discussion, starting Monday July 26th. The book is premised on the often difficult idea of…
The Dharma of Social Transformation
Charles Johnson argues that in cutting the root of our own suffering, we can't help but confront the suffering of society.
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