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I; self; me. Mahayatia philosophical systems do not assert the existence of an independent, self-existent, unchanging self, because if such a self were to exist, a person would be unchanging and would be unable to purify himself of fettering passions etc, and attain Buddhahood. What is accepted is a relative, impermanent, changeable, conscious-entity self, which is the continuation of one's former life, to this and future lives and is also the basis for the ripening of karmi
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