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Anatta. No soul,no self.

"Anatta', opposite to the Hindu belief of 'Anatman'..(which is belief in a soul,or something permanent).
According to Buddhism nothing is permanent,in fact nothing exists unchanging for even a nanosecond. All is in flux.
And for that reason there is no soul that transmigrates or goes to heaven after death. There isn't even a fixed 'i' or a fixed 'Me' or 'Self'..that travels from one moment to the next during life.
Thoughts exist but there is no thinker of those thoughts.
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Entwistle · 56-60, M
Nothing anywhere is fixed,unchanging.
A permanent soul or personality will not survive death or spend anytime with a god or a devil. Nothing fixed will reincarnate,although rebirth occurs..it occurs every moment in this life now.
The man who left the room 10 minutes ago is not the man who re-entered the room 1 minute later.