dissolve the fiction of a static self

The denial of self challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind - not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.

~ Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs

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