Anatta 2 | 中道 4

In Buddhism, the term anatta or anatman refers to the notion of “not-self” or the illusion of “self”.

— Wikipedia on Anatta

Thus, in Theravada Buddhist soteriology, there is neither a permanent self nor complete annihilation of the ‘person’ at death; there is only the arising and ceasing of causally related phenomena.

— Wikipedia on Middle Way

The Buddha attacked all attempts to conceive of a fixed self, while stating that holding the view “I have no self” is also mistaken. This is an example of the middle way charted by the Buddha.

— Wikipedia on Philosophy of self

The following is a completely different point, but still relevant to the “not-self” topic: 

The Buddha’s concept of “not-self” does not mean “there is no me“, just as “a camera cannot take a picture of itself” does not mean “the camera does not exist“.

A hand cannot hold itself, but it still exists.

— Me@2013.01.14

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