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Assess the arguments for the no-self doctrine. Are annata and karma reconcilable?
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... Assess the arguments for the no-self doctrine. Are annata and karma reconcilable? The Buddhist theory of no-self (annata) is perhaps one of the most alien, complex and misunderstood concepts for the westerner to grasp. Essentially the "no self" refers to the denial of a soul. In this sense the soul is "the abiding, separate, constantly existing and indestructible entity which is generally believed to be found in man...it is the thinker of all his thoughts, the doer of all his deeds and the director of the organism generally" (Malalasckera 1957). Buddhists assert that you can only be happy once you have discarded the view of a self ; a paradoxical situation that seems absurd. The Buddhists see the idea of "I" as a figment of the imagination with nothing real to correspond to it. If I conjure up another figment of imagination like the idea of "belonging" the "I" concludes that
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