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Not-Self and the Five Aggregates
The aggregates of clinging, the characteristic of not-self, and the danger of holding even the teaching wrongly.
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The five aggregates and the five aggregates of clinging.
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Not-self: the second teaching.
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Form like foam, feeling like a bubble, perception like a mirage, choices like a plantain trunk, consciousness like a magic trick.
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Grasping the teaching like a snake by the tail, and the raft that is for crossing over.
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Six sets of six: if any of them were self, it would follow that self arises and passes away.
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Why the Buddha stayed silent when Vacchagotta asked whether there is a self.