無我

(無我, 无我)

(sa) anātman; (sa) nairātmya; no ego, no soul (of an independent and self-contained character), impersonal, no individual independent existence (of conscious or unconscious beings, (sa) anātmaka). The empirical ego is merely an aggregation of various elements, and with their disintegration it ceases to exist; therefore it has nm ultimate reality of its own, but the <Nirvāṇa Sūtra> asserts the reality of the ego in the transcendental realm. The non-Buddhist definition of ego is that it has permanent individuality [lang id =1028]常一之體 and is independent or sovereign [lang id =1028]有主宰之用. When applied to men it is [lang id =1028]人我, when to things it is [lang id =1028]法我. Cf. [lang id =1028]常 11.

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佛教主張無我， 明示存在與緣起的關繫， 認為‘我’是依於一繫列的因緣而存在， 即所謂‘五蘊和合’而有， 但在五蘊和合期間， 其中沒有一個實體的自我， 因緣關繫發生變化， 五蘊離散， 更沒有一個實體的自我， 所以佛教的基本理論‘三法印’的第二法印說： ‘諸法無我’。

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１．無有實我。 ２．忘卻自己。