Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) — "The body, monks, is not self. If the body were the self, this body would not len…"
The body, monks, is not self. If the body were the self, this body would not lend itself to dis-ease.
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From the Anattalakkhana Sutta (Samyutta Nikaya XXII, 59), a teaching on non-self
Date: c. 5th-6th Century BCE
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