Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Via Daily Dharma


What the Buddha Never Said | April 2, 2014

'There is no self' is the granddaddy of fake Buddhist quotes. It has survived so long because of its superficial resemblance to the teaching on anatta, or not-self, which was one of the Buddha’s tools for putting an end to clinging. Even though he neither affirmed nor denied the existence of a self, he did talk of the process by which the mind creates many senses of self—what he called “I-making” and “my-making”—as it pursues its desires. 
—Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “There is no self.”

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