selflessness; self-effacement
General term for forgetting oneself or acting without ego; often used in contexts of devotion, concentration, or altruism.
彼は無我の境地でボランティア活動に打ち込んでいる。
He devotes himself to volunteer work in a state of selflessness.
He threw himself completely into his work, forgetting himself entirely.
anatta; anatman; non-self
Buddhist doctrine that there is no permanent, unchanging self or soul; a core concept in Buddhist philosophy.
仏教では、無我の教えが根本的な考え方の一つとされている。
In Buddhism, the teaching of anatta is considered one of the fundamental concepts.
She continues her volunteer work with a spirit of selflessness.
忘我 describes a temporary trance or ecstatic loss of self-awareness, whereas 無我 refers to the broader philosophical ideal or state of having no fixed ego.
自我 is one's ego or sense of individual self, which 無我 denies or seeks to transcend.
losing oneself; being completely absorbed; forgetting oneself
state of complete self-effacement; trance
From Middle Chinese 無我 (mju nga), a Buddhist term translating Sanskrit anātman (अनात्मन्). The kanji 無 means 'without' and 我 means 'self'.