“Apart from concept,” he confirmed, “there is no self. It is just an idea. A notion. A thing that comes and goes. A story we tell ourselves about our experience of reality that’s changing the whole time, sometimes up, sometimes down. Depending on who we’ve just been speaking to, and what we’ve been eating and drinking, our ideas and feelings about our self change, which just goes to show that there’s nothing permanent there. It’s just a thought.”
