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Why is 'unborn' not the self?
the unborn, is described by Buddha:
The born, become, produced, made, fabricated, impermanent, fabricated
of aging & death, a nest of illnesses, perishing, come-into-being
through nourishment and ...
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When there is no self, who or what will exert a conscious effort to reach nirvana?
According to Theravadic Buddhism there’s no self. Self is an emergent illusion of a collection of smaller entities ( citta, chaithasika etc), in the same way, the physical body is an emergent result ...
