Reply To: what does ending of sakkaya ditthi really mean?

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Lal
Keymaster

I realized that I had not answered this part of Siebe’s question: “.. what does ending of sakkaya ditthi personally mean for you in daily life?”

When one gets rid of sakkaya ditthi, one understand deep inside that there is nothing in this world that is worth killing, stealing, lying, etc, i.e., harming other living beings, especially humans.
– Such actions (dasa akusala) are going to bring much more harm than any temporary sense gratification.

The key is that one will AUTOMATICALLY respond to day-to-day situations with that mindset WITHOUT having to think about it. That saññā will be permanently ingrained to one’s mind (and that will hold through future lives); see, “Saññā – What It Really Means“.
– That change of mindset comes about by contemplating on the basic key factors that I discussed in my previous post above.