What happens when "YOU" don't exist?

What are you screaming, crying, and going on about? (Sensory Stepping Stones)

What happens when "YOU" don't exist? The Buddha's most radical TRUTH

(Buddha's Wisdom) April 6, 2025: 🔍 WHAT IF “YOU” WERE NEVER REALLY THERE? What happens when the “you” you’ve always identified with suddenly disappears?

(Forget you. What about me? What happens when the “I” I’ve always identified with suddenly disappears and, what’s worse, I realize it was never really there to begin with?)

According to the Buddha, this isn’t a sci-fi scenario. — It’s the key to the deepest freedom a living being can experience.

TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 THE DAY "YOU" DISAPPEARED
• 02:42 THE MOMENT OF DISAPPEARANCE
• 06:07 FREEDOM FROM THE PRISON OF SELF
• 09:40 RELATIONSHIPS WITHOUT A "ME"
• 13:04 THE PRACTICAL REALITY OF NO-SELF
• 16:59 THE ULTIMATE LIBERATION
• 21:52 THE COSMIC JOKE BUDDHA DISCOVERED

This video explores the Buddhist concept that all things are already impersonal and there is, ultimately speaking, no-self (anatta), what it feels like to let go of the illusion of identifying with this and that (form, feelings, perceptions, formations, consciousness aka the "Five Aggregates clung to as self"), and why letting go of clinging to that illusion of “you” is the most liberating thing one can ever do.

But how to let go? We can’t “do” it, but it can be done. It’s easy: see things for what they really are (ultimate mentality and materiality, nama-rupa, cittas and kalapas through insight meditation as taught by the great living Buddhist master Pa Auk Sayadaw). DISCOVER:

• How flow states reveal moments of “self-disappearance”
• Why the Buddha taught that the self is just a mental construct
• The mystery of who — or what — is aware when “we” are gone
• How relationships transform when ego drops away
• What neuroscience says about the illusion of self

LINKS: – Adyashanti, The End of Your World – Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear – Mark Epstein, The Trauma of Everyday Life – Research on the Default Mode Network – Harvard Neuroscience Studies – Zen Teachings from Dōgen, Huineng, Shunryu Suzuki.

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• Matt, Buddha's Wisdom, April 6, 2025; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation, Los Angeles), Wisdom Quarterly