Buddha Was Wrong: The Self Is Needed: 08-07-2025

1. The Buddha believed in reincarnation but taught that there was no self to be reincarnated, only data, information, or memories. Only AI would want such a nonsensical world to exist.
2. Internal sensing (perceiving) does not have or experience itself; a self has and experiences sensing, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
3. Internal sensations do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences sensations, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
4. Internal feelings do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences feelings, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
5. Internal intentions do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences intentions, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
6. Internal thoughts, plans, and responses do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences thoughts, plans, and responses, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
7. Internal memories do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences memories, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.

For more information, please read Buddha Failed: 25 Reasons.

The Self Versus The Body: 08-06-2025

1. The self is not the brain or body, despite using and inhabiting them.
2. The self is an inner body, so it never confuses itself with the physical body, an outer body.
3. The roles you perform, use as masks, and use for social games can be part of the ego, not the self.
4. The autobiographical self is part of the ego, a component of the delusional narratives that underlie self-esteem.
5. Physical embodiment is often a means for the ego to claim legitimacy as something besides mental objects and things. In contrast, the self turns its inner awareness on the body, not to become it or claim it, but to become more aware of it, usually for practical or health reasons.

The Internal Body’s World: 08-05-2025

1. The internal body has its own set of senses to perceive its internal world, which are different from the physical body’s senses to perceive its external world.
2. The internal body has internal sensations different from those of the physical body.
3. The internal body has internal feelings different from those of the physical body.
4. The internal body has internal intentions related to its internal feelings, not the body’s external feelings.
5. The internal body has internal thoughts, plans, and responses that originate internally and not from the physical body.

Buddha Was Wrong About the Self: 08-04-2025

1. Buddha denied the existence of a self by claiming that there were experiences inside the body that existed independently and without the need for a self. He identified five parts of a human being, according to Ajahn Sona, as the body, feelings, perceptions, volitions (decisions), and consciousness (encompassing sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and mental processes).
2. The human physical body is similar to the physical bodies of animals and plants; it senses its environment and has reactions and predetermined responses to it. Without a physical body, there would be no experiences or awareness of the physical world, nor would there be any need for them.
3. The human internal body is unique in the physical world because animals and plants do not have one. In the spiritual world, all beings have both an internal and external body.
4. It is absurdly foolish to identify internal experiences and not someone (a self) having them. The internal world exists only because there is an internal body experiencing it. Otherwise, it is pointless madness that could elicit no reaction, response, or awareness because there would be nothing to affect and no reason for it to exist.
5. It is absurdly foolish to attribute internal experiences to concepts and images (such as the ego and self-esteem), rather than to some living body. Thought cannot constitute a body or a self. Thought cannot live as a body and have living experiences as a body that it reacts and responds to.
6. If there is no body, then there are no experiences or awareness. If there are experiences and awareness, then there is a body. When a body dies, its experiences and awareness end. When a body is born, it immediately starts to have experiences and awareness.

Human Nature Versus Virtue: 08-03-2025

1. Our nature responds with destruction, laziness, and stupidity unless it is guided by virtue.
2. Our nature wants to claim and cling to something, and often anything it can, because such is considered better than nothing.
3. Our nature wants to claim and cling to being things even if those things are dangerous or deadly because they are something, which is better than nothing to flesh.
4. Our guided nature responds with faith, hope, humility, gratitude, waiting, and a pure space for hosting unless our flesh nature overcomes it.
5. Our guided nature keeps us as a prepared, useful, and clean space (vessel), to be used as willed by God, without any claims or taking of credit by that space.

Triple-Checking Is Worth It: 08-02-2025

1. Triple-checking is a practice of “Better safe than sorry,” one of the wisest proverbs.
2. Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, because sometimes we only check memories and not physical realities.
3. Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, because sometimes we only check mental things and not physical things.
4. Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, as even minor changes over time can lead to significant differences in results.
5. Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, because sometimes our checking is merely a mental process, rather than verifying reality and results.

Self-Esteem Is Mental Things Pretending: 08-01-2025

1. Self-esteem is based on defining oneself in terms of concepts and images, which are mental things.
2. Mental things never live your life; they make self-esteem false in every way.
3. Mental things never have your experiences, making self-esteem fail all tests of truth.
4. Mental things are never your experiences, making self-esteem fail all tests for reality.
5. Mental things never remember your experiences, making self-esteem fail in all testable ways.
6. Mental things never feel, intend, think, plan, or do anything for you, making self-esteem a fraudulent system of delusions.