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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