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  • Anattā — not self
    by Ulrico

    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

    LocorReach derivative w/2- on C# 138 Hz (rel. 438.2 Hz), octatonality 1-2-4-5-7-8-9-12-1 with a hint of progression (single up 3 & lo 6) — double 7-string guitar & tanpura — 6:01

    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

    Anattā -- not self
    American natives referred to June’s full moon as the “strawberry moon”. It supposedly supports deeper, more authentic communication. Here, pollution from Canadian forest fires colored it reddish. — June 2025 — near Bern, Switzerland

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