Thank you Tobias for sharing! I really like how direct this sutta is.
Regarding the 3rd stanza of the Buddha’s answer, he states that “One should completely extract…The notion, “I am the thinker”.
Does this mean that “I”, the thinker is this body and is not who I am? This is easy to understand.
Or does it mean it in general, I am not the thinker b/c the mind is not who I am, just as the body is not who I am once shed?
And if I am not the mind is the case, what’s left after the Parinibbana? Is there still a mind in the mind plane, but without boundaries? Is what anyone is just part of universal mind?
Just pondering life outside the box.
With metta,
Donna