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        'Not-self', Non-ego, egolessness, impersonality: is the last of the
      the Three Characteristics of existence.  The anatta doctrine teaches
      that neither within the bodily and mental phenomena of existence, nor
      outside of them, can be found anything that in the ultimate sense
      could be regarded as a self-existing real Ego-entity, soul or any
      other abiding substance.  This is the central doctrine of Buddhism,
      without an understanding of which a real knowledge of Buddhism is
      altogether impossible.  It is the only specific Buddhist doctrine,
      with which the entire structure of the Buddhist teachings stands or
      falls.
        All the remaining Buddhist doctrines may, more or less, be found in
      other philosophic systems and religions, but the Anatta-Doctrine has
      been clearly and unreservedly taught only by the Buddha, wherefore
      the Buddha is known as the Anatta-vadi, or teacher of Impersonality.
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       "Whosoever has not penetrated this impersonality of all existence,
      and does not comprehend that in reality there exists only this
      continually self-consuming process of arising and passing bodily and
      mental phenomena, and that there is no separate Ego-entity within
      or without this process, he will not be able to understand Buddhism,
      ie., the teaching of the four Noble Truths, in the right light. He
      will think that it is his Ego, his personality, that experiences the
      suffering, his personality that performs good and evil actions and
      will be reborn according to these actions, his personality that will
      enter into Nirvana, his personality that walks on the Eightfold Path."