PHILOS 1 Lecture 4: Philos 1 - L4
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Even if you could answer these questions, you would still be dissatisfied. You need to live the teachings, not good enough to just know the theories. No longing for gratification or satisfaction from any state of affairs. This is because the enlightened individual does not identify themselves as an i". In order to attain nirvana, one needs to realize there is no self. On the commonly held buddhist view, a person is a complex series of physical and mental constituents this is what leads buddhist scholars to hold a reductionist view of persons. 3 characteristics of mortality: impermanence everything is dependently arisen, these things are always changing (nirvana is the only permanent thing, suffering, notion of no-self. All compounded things are impermanent, prone to arise and fall. Mental and emotional life are in constant flux. These compounded things rise together and in time fall apart. Things are impermanent in two different ways: arise and decay.
