@monklet

Hi Will

Thanks for your query. I think you may have misunderstood what I wrote. I will try to clarify 🙂

Whose intelligence are you using ? Self or non-self ? I suspect it is Will’s intelligence, yeah ? So you obviously believe in yourself to use your intellectual powers for querying things. On another hand, if I didn’t believe in myself, I would be questioning myself and not the world, yeah ? Correct me if I am wrong. When I am questioning myself, what emotion am I using ? Fear or love ? Self doubt is a fear based emotion or love based emotion ?

Who is Will ? Why are you a student of Buddhism if you didn’t believe in Will enough to pursue this religion ? Could it be to understand yourself better ? Could it be to understand something about Will and his / her purpose in this world and how to live in harmony with your nature ? Could it be to get closer to being a more loving Will ?

I am not a Buddhist so I am not sure what doctrine you are referring to when you talk about “non-self”.

Study of self (YOU, Will etc) and how you interact with the nature around forms a huge part of evolving. People choose to this evolving in different forms such as using an intellectual enquiry, religion, or being a student of Buddhism etc.

Does this make more sense ?