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What is an individual conscious awareness if not a self? Well it is a witness, an observer, that usually is tricked into believing it is a person and feels guilt and so on over things that happened due to identification with the life the brain is making. "I did this and that." Did we really? We can wake up, go to the bathroom and brush our teeth, make and eat breakfast, and drive to work and have every one of those things be done by the brain. We don't even have to pay attention. We can live on auto pilot. We can even talk with others and have the brain behind all of it.
Buddhism teaches there is no self or such and such is non-self or we are empty or whatever idea we like or don't like according to how our brain makes our thoughts. Can one be free of all thought? Worth a try I think! But then my brain thought that thought. My brain made every word I typed in this post. Don't believe the reality of any of it!
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