Continued from above…

So now it’s more clear when you wrote Sex you!.

So can I ask u question about my situation : A little girl live in my psyche usually, cuckoo friend assert that she is not my ancestor, some reason she are fit with me, myself I cannot see that, a hinayana estern nun say the same but he use phrase "be possessed by a disembodied woman souls !! Michael, can u share ur vision about my situation ^_= ?

MiBeloved 6 years ago

Regarding Buddha’s statement that there is no soul (anatma)

Buddha is a divine being and therefore he cannot be contradicted by anyone. If someone is a divine being and he says something that makes absolutely no sense in our day to day experience, then we have to hold a reserve that there is something which we are not getting in his rapport.

We cannot just dismiss things which Buddha explained which appear to be absurd. The very idea that Buddha established himself as an authority and said that he was a specific Buddha in a line of Buddhas and even spoke about future Buddhas means that he admitted to personality and to individual personality.

So then why the absurd statement about no soul?

In the service of Buddha, as his son, I will explain this on his behalf.

The idea of soul which Buddha addressed had to do with the Sanskrit usage of the term atma. In fact in the Pali language there is the term anatma to give Buddha’s idea of no soul. When a is added to an a-letter word in Sanskrit, the syntax rules state that n must be included after the a-letter. Thus a + atma gives anatma in usage.

A in this case means not or no, the negative

So why that specific individual Gautama Buddha make an absurd statement denying that there is an individual soul, something which Krishna asserts in the beginning of his discourse with Arjuna when Arjuna thought that his individual relatives would be destroyed and would  be no more at Kurukshetra.

The answer is that the normal usage of the word soul points to the social identity of that specific individual in a particular life. We are hardly ever in touch with the core-self of the individual but we are mostly in touch with the role of that core self. When we point to someone as atma, we are usually pointing to the social role that persons plays in a particular life.

In each life these social roles change and so if the word atma means that social identity, then Buddha is correct in that that is temporary and is not the real identity.

The concept of no soul makes sense in that usage but it does not make sense in the extreme. In the extreme usage where we are saying that there is no core upon which to formulate those social roles, the usage is absurd and it would make Buddha himself and everything he said total useless.

He is a divine being and therefore it cannot be useless. Therefore we have to understand the depth of his insight and get to the level of consideration where he was trying to take us.

It is the same thing with trying to following the line of reason of a person like Sri Ramana Maharshi. We have to avoid what is absurd and still come away with an understanding of what is reality beyond mere social designations in each life in the material world.

If anything there is neutral identity which is colored by various social roles according to the birth situation one acquires. Neutral identity does not mean no identity but it means that since it is susceptible to these roles and must on occasion accept these, as Buddha did when he returned to his birth place and had to be practical in relation with relatives like his father, we have to always be reserved and try to reach back into the source instead of taking these roles so seriously.

MiBeloved 6 years ago

Nam Saker II wrote:

So can I ask u question about my situation : A little girl live in my psyche usually, cuckoo friend assert that she is not my ancestor, some reason she are fit with me, myself I cannot see that, a hinayana estern nun say the same but he use phrase "be possessed by a disembodied woman souls !! Michael, can u share ur vision about my situation ^_= ?

MiBeloved's Response:

Usually if a person has an automobile, we assume that anyone riding with him is a relative. This is convention. And still that person may not be a relative.

Usually a soul who rides along with you in your psyche and who is to be reborn as your child, is one of your ancestors but there might be a person in that position who is not your ancestor from this life. That person might be an ancestor or even acquaintance from a previous life.

Something which I did not touch in the sex you! book is the incidence of a person being in your psyche and not ever taking birth through your body. In other words some of those who are in your psyche, might not be destined for rebirth as your infant. Those persons stay with you and enjoy the facilities which you enjoy when you act in the material world. And in fact those persons cause you to act on their behalf without your ever realizing that you are their proxy or puppet.

It seems to me though that this girl is an elemental spirit which is allied to you perpetually and so wherever you go into which body or into which dimension, this person accompanies you.

It is said that wherever Jesus Christ went, a host of angelic beings went with him. Where Krishna goes, the entire Universal Form (Bhagavad Gita chapter 11) goes with him.

And so wherever you go that elemental spirit is with you.