Gethin notes under the chapter entitled ‘No Self’ (p 143),
‘ There is no primary substance to remain constant’. What can be understood
from a Buddhist perspective of the path in attaining nirvana is that one can be
encapsulated within a constant state of samsara, and pass through many states
of birth and death. Gethin emphasizes in regards to causality the casual
connectedness of each successive point of experience through the aggregates. Is
it so that the substrate of this process constitute the nature of awakening,
where no beginning and end exist but a constant finite juxtapositions of
experience? Where is the self evident in this aggregate process? Language seems
to have have significant limitations in regards to this undisclosed ‘I’ especially
in regards to Buddhist texts and Buddha’s teaching. With such limitations, can
we ever fully know the nature of the self?
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