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Illusion of Self | Attachment to Identity | Entity View | Sakkayaditthi | Upadana | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked to give examples of attachment to Self, clinging to the illusion of an identity, called Sakkāyadiṭṭhi = Entity View by the Buddha.
The quote Ajahn mentions:
"Yena yena hi maññanti, tato taṃ hoti aññathā."
"By whatever they conceive, that is becoming otherwise."
= "Whatever they use as support for their illusion of identity, that is all changing and becoming otherwise"
(Majjhima Nikāya/Middle Length Discourses #113, "Sappurisa Sutta" / "Discourse on the Authentic Person")
In other words, the prop ups we're using to build our delusion of entity will always fail…
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