Anattā — not self
This is not mine
This I am not
This is not my self
So please, what is?
Reality and delusion
We are all in between
Rather practice reality
Nurture what is uplifting
Not what is pulling down
With all human limitations
Better treasure freedom
Interwoven all together
Not self-centered fear
But realizing rather
This is not mine
This I am not
Is not my self
Consciousness
In calming silence
Where life is flowing
We can ride the waves
Of being in harmony
Ever here and now.
“Satipaṭṭhāna concordance” — a meditative object
Anattā — not self: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’
“As to those various views that arise in the world associated either with doctrines of a self or with doctrines about the world: if [the object] in relation to which those views arise, which they underlie, and which they are exercised upon is seen as it actually is with proper wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self,’ then the abandoning and relinquishing of those views comes about.”
— Sallekha Sutta — effacement — #8.3
“A well-taught noble disciple who has regard for noble ones and is skilled and disciplined in their Dhamma [harmony of life], who has regard for true men and is skilled and disciplined in their Dhamma, regards material form thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’ He regards feeling thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’ He regards perception thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’ He regards formations thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’ He regards what is seen, heard, sensed, cognized, encountered, sought, mentally pondered thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’ And this standpoint for views, namely, ‘That which is the self is the world; after death I shall be permanent, everlasting, eternal, not subject to change; I shall endure as long as eternity’ — this too he regards thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’
“Since he regards them thus, he is not agitated about what is non-existent.”
— Alagaddūpama Sutta — the simile of the snake — #22.16 & 17
— Majjhima Nikāya — the middle length discourses of the Buddha, translated from Pali by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, pp. 123 & 229-230
Strawberry moon in the advent of summer heat
