Anattā
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Oct 31, 2026
Raghu MarkusHOST
Well, oh, everybody.
Raghu MarkusHOST
He is also an author, Michael, and he wrote a book, Anatta, Heart of Wisdom.
Raghu MarkusHOST
So, of course, we're going to talk about a couple of things in there.
Raghu MarkusHOST
We could start with, what is Anatta? Ah,
Michael SchauchGUEST
yeah.
Raghu MarkusHOST
Let's start there.
Raghu MarkusHOST
That's probably a great place, right?
Michael SchauchGUEST
Anatta.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
In Buddhism, this is called anatman, which translates roughly to no-self.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
This teaching emerged in response to an earlier Hindu belief, a concept called Atman, which asserted that all people had an eternal and unchanging core, similar to a soul.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
Anatman was a rebuttal to that idea.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
I found that Anatman relieves some of the pressure around all of this.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
We feel as if there should be an essence to us, some permanent quality that persists over time, that you can point to.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
But Anatman reminds us that there's no aspect of the self that doesn't change.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
Life is long, and we transform throughout it.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
As we grow, we learn new physical skills, like playing soccer and the piano, and eventually acquire back problems and wrinkles.
Brigid LowryGUEST
So as I understand them, some of the very basics of Buddhism.
Brigid LowryGUEST
So the first thing that always comes to me when I try and explain the Dharma to someone, I talk about the three characteristics, Anicca, Anatta and Dukkha, which is everything's changing all the time.
Brigid LowryGUEST
There is unsatisfactoriness.
Brigid LowryGUEST
And there's no abiding self to whom it's happening.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
It's amazing just how the mindfulness, you can sense, there's some tests you can make to show that your mindfulness is very strong.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
And instead of just using it to contemplate my body, you know, that just all the pain and aches had gone for an hour or two, then he used it to contemplate, you know, what is this thing called sickness? What is this thing called the negativity towards sickness? What is this thing which we have so much argument with? We learn how to understand this Dhamma and the Chiduka Anatta.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
You know, the things, they do change.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
When you have the mindfulness after a deep meditation, you can allow things to change.
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Ajahn BrahmHOST
Wow.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
That's what Dukkha is.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
And most importantly, Anatta.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
That's one of the nicest things.
Meian ElbertGUEST
We can all understand that.
Meian ElbertGUEST
We don't have to worry about Anatta and about our self or no self or whatever.
Meian ElbertGUEST
Just don't be selfish, because everyone can understand that.
Meian ElbertGUEST
And practicing that, not being selfish, Doesn't mean we can't do something nice for ourselves.
Ken D. FosterHOST
meaning and what it means to be human.
Ken D. FosterHOST
In his book, Anatta, which we're going to be talking about today, Heart of Wisdom, Michael takes us into a world where ancient stories, remote Himalayan communities, sky caves, mountains, human relationships, and Buddhist wisdom are At the heart of this explanation is a profound question.
Ken D. FosterHOST
Our stories create memories, identities, and cultures, but is there an older and deeper story that transcends time and the barriers between us? So today we're going to explore...
Ken D. FosterHOST
some of his adventures.
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Michael SchauchGUEST
Just as our stories are part of us, but they're not the true us.
Ken D. FosterHOST
Well, you know, as a Buddhist, we have self or non-self, right? We have things that we're attached to, not attached to.
Ken D. FosterHOST
You know, Anatta, we're going to be talking about your book.
Ken D. FosterHOST
I'm not going to put it up yet, but Anatta means non-sense.
Trevor JamesHOST
We ought not think we ought to meditate and sort of come to terms with our own emptiness.
Trevor JamesHOST
Again, getting back to Anatta, which is the Pali word for no self and realizing that we're not what we think we are.
Trevor JamesHOST
We're actually empty by nature.
Trevor JamesHOST
And that's what crushes us is we all kind of know that.
Peter DoobininHOST
We see the empty nature of conditioned things.
Peter DoobininHOST
Anicca, Anatta, that's off the mind, can't understand that.
Peter DoobininHOST
We see that we've been spending time involved with things that can't bring us happiness.
Peter DoobininHOST
We understand that we want to make the most of the time that we have.
SubhūtiHOST
The particles arising and passing away, like dancing sugar, dancing bubbles, or boiling sugar, more classical way of saying it is sort of the fried sesame seeds.
SubhūtiHOST
And we can get the idea of one of the khandhas, the first khandha, the first aggregate.
SubhūtiHOST
And the Buddha, he talks about this in Anattalakana Sutta.
SubhūtiHOST
And we can also understand that it's not yours.
SubhūtiHOST
This is not mine.
SubhūtiHOST
And this is not myself.
SubhūtiHOST
There's nothing like a soul.
SubhūtiHOST
And these are the three contemplations of Anattalakana Sutta.
Ajahn AchaloGUEST
Anicca, impermanence.
Ajahn AchaloGUEST
Anatta, not-self.
Ajahn AchaloGUEST
Dukkha, unsatisfactory.
Ajahn AchaloGUEST
This is the kind of effort that produces the quality of mindfulness that knows a thought as it arises, as it stays for some time, as it ceases.
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