#Buddhism reframes the "#HardProblem" of #consciousness by rejecting the mind-matter dichotomy. Rather than treating consciousness as an emergent property or separate substance, #Buddhist #philosophy analyzes it as a contingent process (#viññāṇa) arising through #DependentOrigination. This relational view dissolves the explanatory gap while offering #meditative practices for direct investigation of #awareness's #impermanent, #NonSelf nature.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-16-consciousness_and_the_hard_problem/

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The #DefaultModeNetwork constructs our sense of continuous self through autobiographical narrative and self-referential processing. #Buddhist #meditation practices reduce #DMN activity, correlating with experiences of #anattā (#NonSelf). This convergence between #contemplative insight and #neuroscience reveals the constructed, dynamic nature of ego. Here's a brief overview:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-16-default_mode_network/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

Two new talks added to my website.
- Delusions and the unskilful roots dhamma talk for Monks in Space
- Trans*ending Suffering, embracing truth #trans identity and non-self from an #lgbtq perspective for Metta Centre's 10th Birthday Conference.
#buddhism #trans #nonself #delusion #nonbinary

#Menander I (#Milinda) features in the #Milindapañha as an inquisitive #Hellenistic king debating with the monk #Nāgasena. The text highlights #Buddhism's rational, dialogical method—using analogy and debate to clarify #nonself (#anatta), #rebirth, and #ethics — and its openness to intercultural #philosophical exchange. Here's a brief exploration of his legacy:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-11-menander_and_the_milindapanha/

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#Mushin (無心), the #Zen state of "#NoMind", denotes a mind free from grasping and reactivity, enabling spontaneous, lucid action. Unlike mere blankness, mushin embodies refined #awareness and non-conceptual clarity, aligning with Buddhist ideals of #equanimity and #NonSelf (#anatta). Exceptional in linking #meditative insight to everyday activity. Here is a brief overview of its meaning and practice in Zen.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-08-04-mushin/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

The most important thing is to awaken the heart, and then rest in spacious ease. Interestingly, when we directly experience the truth of non-self we experience unbridled joy and bliss, which is nondual with love and compassion. Non-self is a wonderful, blissful thing and not the existential drama we might expect. Non-self is love. Non-self is devotion. Given this, I will repeat: Dzogchen is love and devotion. Love and devotion are Dzogchen.
~Pema Düddel
#Dzogchen #nonself #bliss #joy #love

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: The Heart Sutra

🔗 Explore BDG on YouTube: youtube.com/@BuddhistdoorGlobal

#Buddhism #Buddha #ThichNhatHanh #Emptiness #Sunyata #NonSelf #Anatman #HeartSutra #Liberation #SpiritualGrowth #Awakening #Spirituality

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: The Heart Sutra

Listen Sariputra, 
all phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness; 
their true nature is the nature of 
no Birth no Death, 
no Being no Non-being, 
no Defilement no Purity, 
no Increasing no Decreasing. — The Heart Sutra

🔗 Explore more at BDG: https://buddhistdoor.net

#Buddhism #Buddha #ThichNhatHanh #Emptiness #Sunyata #NonSelf #Anatman #HeartSutra #Liberation #SpiritualGrowth #Awakening #Spirituality

BDG feature: Only This, Wisdom Mind -- Asa Hershoff reflects on the tantric view of pure awareness

🔗 Read here: https://tinyurl.com/5hap72s3

#Buddhism #Mind #TantricBuddhism #Vajrayana #TibetanBuddhism #BuddhistRetreat #Shunyata #Nonself #Rigpa

BDG feature: Maturity on the Path: Guidance from the Buddha

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/4cfz7d2u

#buddhism #theravada #buddhistmonk #buddhistpractice #buddha #dhamma #dharma #palicanon #meditation #nonself

BDG feature: Living Playfully: Glimpses into a Buddhist Artist’s Training and Practice

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/2s3cs5wu

#buddhism #creativity #art #expression #mindfulness #uk #scotland #nonself #play #playfulness #buddhistpractice

https://youtube.com/shorts/s_k1gMUcJIs?si=NVEzHG7aa93GW9C0 #self #nonself

Enjoying some listening to some exploration of #Buddhist #philosophy of #self and #nonself at https://youtu.be/gSZjKKuvHEQ .
It's part of my quest for an antidote to suffering due to mortality, loss and gain, the inherent unsatisfactory nature of all things, etc. Meaning, if there's no such thing as "I" as we're led to believe, then I think there's hope for a more satisfactory understanding of how things really are, and what underpins all phenomena including my little lifetime..

Enjoying some listening to some exploration of #Buddhist #philosophy of #self and #nonself at https://youtu.be/gSZjKKuvHEQ .
It's part of my quest for an antidote to suffering due to mortality, loss and gain, the inherent unsatisfactory nature of all things, etc. Meaning, if there's no such thing as "I" as we're led to believe, then I think there's hope for a more satisfactory understanding of how things really are, and what underpins all phenomena including my little lifetime..

BDG feature: Things Come Apart -- The process of change can be frustrating, but it is also unavoidable and can lead to growth if correctly approached

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/3bk9cj7w

#buddhism #mahayana #buddha #pureland #amitabha #amida #impermanence #meditation #buddhistpractice #nonself #anatman

BDG feature: Buddha-nature -- Anam Thubten Rinpoche examines the concept of buddha-nature and how the path to recognizing our fundamental nature is the key to liberation

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/ynznm98u

#buddhism #buddhistpractice #nonself #vajrayana #mahayana #buddhistphilosophy #spirituality #selfknowledge #liberation #dharma #science #ontology

BDG feature: Ego Attachment and the Myth of “Knowing Yourself:” Understanding Non-self in the Age of Social Media

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/mrdjat9z

#buddhism #dharma #mindfulness #usa #nonself #socialmedia #digitalmedia #identity #authenticity #impermanence #wellbeing

アリストテレスが「思考する精神(プシュケー)」と呼んだものは端的に言えば「理性 logos」であり、生命体の免疫系において自己／非自己を論理的に識別する主体としての「自己」に該当している。〔...〕微生物による介入のしくみを理解し、必要十分な呼吸を自発的に行うための主体が「自己」としての理性であり、より事細かで精密な認識においては、理性と呼吸を分けて考えることはできない。理性とはヒトが生きぬくために自ら見いだしていくかそけき風の通り道であって、眼には見えないその姿はまさに「思考する息吹き(プシュケー)」である。

"What Aristotle called the 'thinking psyche' is in a nutshell 'logos' as reason and corresponds to the 'self' as the subject that logically distinguishes self from non-self in the immune system of living organism. ❲...❳ The subject that understands the mechanism of intervention by microbes and voluntarily takes sufficient breathing is logos, and in more detailed recognition, logos and breathing cannot be thought of separately. Logos is the passway for the faint wind that human find for themself in order to live, and its invisible figure is exactly the 'thinking psyche' as bleathing."

https://homorehabilis.blogspot.com/2023/06/microbialsubjective.html

#logos #Aristotle #immune #self #nonself #psyche #免疫 #微生物 #アリストテレス #自己 #非自己 #プシュケー

BDG feature: Spatial Samsara: The Apple in the Garden -- Exploring what Apple’s Vision Pro means for the future of illusion through the lens of dependent origination and retro sci-fi

Read here: tinyurl.com/c5yp42pc

#buddhism #technology #digitaltechnology #vr #ar #virtualreality #augmentedreality #applevisionpro #philosophy #illusion #delusion #ignorance #mindfulness #meditation #nonself #buddhistthought

[New Post] Remaining Curious

What can we do when our Self gets in the way of our creativity and seeing new things, when our own life experiences keep us in a protective bubble?

Read the full essay at >>>>
https://open.substack.com/pub/strong99/p/remaining-curious?r=1gqrp8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#strong99 #curiosity #exploration #science #pausing #marthabeck #zen #buddhism #nonself #creativity