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All our suffering stems from the belief we have a 'self' to protect.
Bold, right?
I stand firmly by this, but I'm not the first to make such an assertion.
One of the central tenets of Buddhism is the need to abandon the mentally-constructed illusion of who we think we are to live a peaceful, …