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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AncientGlory" data-source="post: 8362683" data-attributes="member: 262433">You are touching two deep concepts of buddhism at the same time. The will(Chethna) is the karma, meaning what we think will become actions, and so the thoughts are indeed karma. The result will be also a feeling on you whether it's good or bad(vedana).  But you cannot call these yours(No self) because you are not really in control. It is not you. Thinking that a self exists in wrong in this sense. In here we are talking about a state of mind that force us to believe there is a self. It's a concept built in to us. The universe operates in such a way, that it is almost impossible to truly seperate from this concept. The words I, we are man made to further explain these concepts but truely there is no self.The concept of doer and the reaper becomes more clear when you think that we are not talking about one life time. According to buddhism, through out the samsara, we take various physical forms, but are bound by our karma. So saying that doer is just the thoughts, and reaper is the feelings makes much sense in this case, since there is no constant form of an individual but it changes all the time.Anyways, that's my two cents. I'm not an expert and I try really hard to understand things, but still it's really really deep. My understanding can be completely wrong. One important thing to remember is that the language and words that we use are just man made, sometimes it is not enough to explain universal truths, which can only be understood by self. Try "What buddha taught" by walpola rahula himi, this gives a fair explanation of the concept of no self.</blockquote>

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