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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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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
Not that I am a believer (in anything) But Buddhism always made more sense to me than any other religion. That idea that everything is part of what makes up god and deserves respect for that..