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Buddhist Philosophy
“If everything changes and depends on conditions, what could a permanent self be?”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
Buddhist philosophies develop arguments about suffering, impermanence, dependent arising, and the absence of a substantial self. Later schools disagree about metaphysics, knowledge, and language.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
An emotion seems like one fixed block, but attention reveals sensations, memories, and responses that arise and pass.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
The no-self doctrine does not simply say that nobody exists or that actions have no consequences.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Examine a process and its conditions before treating an experience as a permanent thing.