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Anatta. No soul,no self.

"Anatta', opposite to the Hindu belief of 'Anatman'..(which is belief in a soul,or something permanent).
According to Buddhism nothing is permanent,in fact nothing exists unchanging for even a nanosecond. All is in flux.
And for that reason there is no soul that transmigrates or goes to heaven after death. There isn't even a fixed 'i' or a fixed 'Me' or 'Self'..that travels from one moment to the next during life.
Thoughts exist but there is no thinker of those thoughts.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Not quite...

https://www.learnreligions.com/reincarnation-in-buddhism-449994
What Is the Self?

The Buddha taught that what we think of as our "self"--our ego, self-consciousness, and personality -- is a creation of the skandhas.

Very simply, our bodies, physical and emotional sensations, conceptualizations, ideas and beliefs, and consciousness work together to create the illusion of a permanent, distinctive "me."

The Buddha said, “Oh, Bhikshu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.”

He meant that in every moment, the illusion of "me" renews itself.

Not only is nothing carried over from one life to the next; nothing is carried over from one moment to the next.

This is not to say that "we" do not exist--but that there is no permanent, unchanging "me," but rather that we are redefined in every moment by shifting impermanent conditions
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Suffering and dissatisfaction occur when we cling to desire for an unchanging and permanent self that is impossible and illusory. And release from that suffering requires no longer clinging to the illusion.

My qualm with Buddhism is this idea that the soul after death doesn't change.

Literally EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE. Including any souls and deities!

Otherwise there's no balance between life and after death.

Change is THE essential commonality between the two.

Without change there is nothing! Void! Like before the Big bang, where not even thought existed. Because thought IS change.

The balance IS CHANGE once again. There's Void and there is the balance CHANGE.

A permanent soul or personality will not survive death or spend anytime with a god or a devil.

The idea of God and the devil is supposed to indicate polarity in everything. Therefore balance is absent in Christianity.

I can't stress how wrong this polarity is. Because balance is absent.
Entwistle · 56-60, M
@DeWayfarer What am i denying?
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Entwistle You said
Buddhism doesn't have its roots in Hinduism.

This is historically false!

The Hindus actually have a class Dharma for Buddhists. No one else in fact. Not even Muslims have a class dharma.
Entwistle · 56-60, M
@DeWayfarer I meant to write 'Buddhism does come from Hinduism' ..it has its roots in Hinduism..(that was a misspelling on my phone's part)
Entwistle · 56-60, M
Nothing anywhere is fixed,unchanging.
A permanent soul or personality will not survive death or spend anytime with a god or a devil. Nothing fixed will reincarnate,although rebirth occurs..it occurs every moment in this life now.
The man who left the room 10 minutes ago is not the man who re-entered the room 1 minute later.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
Not that I am a believer (in anything) But Buddhism always made more sense to me than any other religion. That idea that everything is part of what makes up god and deserves respect for that..

 
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