Anatta

We talk about it. We write about it. Some of us even try to teach others about it. But it is becoming painstakingly clear that really we do not get it. How could we? Here, right now we still exist in moments of misery, sorrow, pain and hurt, animosity, fighting, escaping and all of our yesterdays and tomorrows. To understand is not to realize. Yet we continue to befool ourselves, don't we. Creating and playing our games. If you take away the fragmented images we have of our ‘selves, of ‘others’, the names and the hurts and the non-hurts and this physical form can we see what remains in each and everyone of us? Nothing. Consciousness. We are precisely the same in our absolute emptiness. This is what Buddha calls anatta. Non Self. But this emptiness frightens us doesn't it. It's frightens the image of "I". That ego-centered image that drives us to play these games. So we fill it. We fill that emptiness. With materialistic things and with sensual & plesasurable things and with emotional things. We fill it so that we are SOMEbody. SOMEthing. In this great void. But it never fills does it? This emptiness of Non Self. And these conflicts still arise within us. We are never content in anything. So we fail to have uncovered the finality of it all. Of who we are. This Supreme Truth that squashes the separation we create between you and me. This dualistic behaviour and thought process you hold and behold. Yet it is the Truth that we can realize right now, in this very moment. Not something to work towards or to attain on some tomorrow. But right now, here with me.