The Role of Selflessness in the Process of Awakening Development

Abstract

This academic paper aims to find answers to the questions about how to prevent the unwholesome roots from dominating humans and make possible for humans to be awakening when they follow their defilements (greed, hatred and delusion) that lead to problems or suffering, and whether the role of selflessness can be explained so as to lead to the awakening process. The study findings have showed that the selflessness (Anattã)is the principle that the Lord Buddha preached, this should be constantly reviewed to bring about Right Wisdom (Sammãpaññã), meaning that to clearly understand to the utmost of all component things (Paramatthadhamma) to bring about knowledge of contemplation on dispassion (Nibbidãñãña); that is to say, wisdom is caused by awakening, seeing things as they really are; to exterminate ignorance leads to boredom of and relief from desires, not having craving in the component things, or being under such things as ego-consciousness and selfish attachment. Whenever humans give in to the craving or attachment, they suffer; the attachment usually impassions bodily and mentally, fulfilling their wishes sometime but it causes suffering in the end. Whenever we consider the selflessness as seeing the ego-existential state based on impermanence, being oppressed with reasoning of all things that happen for a cause and condition in a certain period of time; when those factors have fluctuating symptoms, the compounded things would follow suit. When the selflessness is understood through the way of truth and the religious teaching, the role of selflessness is truly the core in the process of awakening development.