Anatta

I don't think this interpretation is wrong, but I think the poem (also) is deeper and more literal than that, reflecting what Buddhists call anatta, "not-self," the discovery that the personal self that we usually call "me" has no more substantial existence than the moon reflected on the surface of a lake. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Buddhists have this nifty concept called anatta, or no-self. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With­out the discipline of mindfulness, a doctrine such as anatta would make no sense. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)

Sometimes this term is invoked to point to the experiences of emptiness (shunyata) or non-attachment to a sense of self (anatta) as the goal of spiritual practice. ❋ Larry Yang (2012)

It may seem astonishing that the tradition that most emphatically insists that there is no self (anatta) may routinely do a better job at transmitting the wise practice of self-care and than do Christian traditions which customarily insist on an eternal soul. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Buddhists have this neat little idea called 'no-self', or anatta, which some scholars say contains the essence of all Buddhism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This reminds me of the Buddhist concept of anatta, or no-self. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is the Buddhist principle of anatta, or no-self, made manifest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When you practice anatta, all the energy that was used for judgment, competition and defensiveness can now be used for a better purpose: practicing the loving. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What Buddhism has to say about anatta, for example, is not only profound but consistent with what modern psychologists such as George Herbert Mead and Kurt Lewin have discovered about the constructed nature of the ego-self. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

As the early texts state repeatedly, if something is anicca then the other two characteristics automatically follow: it's dukkha (stressful) and anatta (not-self), i.e., not worthy to be claimed as me or mine. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

Inevitably, then, his way of expressing the dharma was a blend of the truly new for example, the teachings about anatta, or "not-self," and paticca-samuppada, or "dependent origination" and the conventional religious thought of his time. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

Might the Buddhist ideal of anatta or "no self" [p. 337] be thought of as similar to the ideal of selflessness found in the early Christian Church? ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is therefore also a gateway to anatta, selflessness no-self. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

Lack of an impossible soul (bdag-med, Skt: anatmya, Pali: anatta, selflessness, identitylessness). ❋ Unknown (2004)

Such a lack is often called “selflessness,” anatma in Sanskrit, the main Indian scriptural language of Sarvastivada and Mahayana; anatta in Pali, the scriptural language of Theravada. ❋ Unknown (2002)

This was obviously not a view that the Buddha could share, but when the king told him about this conversation, the Buddha did not chide him, launch into a discussion of anatta, or preach a sermon on the Eightfold Path. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)