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"Where,
for instance, is the identity of myself? There's a special quality that makes me
different from everything else and also from all other selves. And I want that
identity, my own self, to continue. So where does that identity dwell?" "Where
indeed?" asked the Buddha. "That self to which you cling is in constant change.
Years ago you were a baby, then a youth, and now a man. Which is your true
selfthat of yesterday, that of today, or that of tomorrow which you so long to
preserve?" "I see I have misunderstood things," replied Kutadanta slowly, "and
although I find it hard to endure the light, the truth now dawns on me that
there is no separate and enduring self. I will take my refuge in your teaching
and find that which is continuing and everlasting in the truth."
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Majjhima Nikaya
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