To understand the origin of selfishness, Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu suggests that we begin by examining avijjā (not knowing or ignorance), which begins with birth. He details the stages of ignorance that begin with ignorant contact, then lead to foolish feeling, then to foolish desire or craving, then to attachment, and finally to selfishness. He emphasizes that the only way to study Dhamma is to study these contacts and stages of ignorance as they really happen in life. He notes that the foundation of the ‘self’ idea is established on the five khandhas (five aggregates) which are taken to be the self, then explains the importance and functions of the five khandas in detail. He concludes with what Buddhism is about – the one fact that when there is attachment to something as ‘I’ or ‘mine,’ then there is dukkha, suffering. And when there is no attachment, then there is no dukkha, no suffering, no pain.

– Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu –

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ENDING SELFISHNESS 

8709 (2 of 5) The Source of Selfishness

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