“Do not look upon your body as your self,” he told Nakulapita. “Do not think that the body is the self or that the self is the body, or that the self is in the body or that the body is in the self. Do not look upon your feelings as your self, your thoughts as your self, even your consciousness as your self. Your body can change and become otherwise,” he told him, “but grief, lamentation, pain, dejection, and despair do not have to arise.”
