As a counterblast to all belief in an eternal ego, the Buddha said in the Maha-Punnam Sutra, "You have to know fully causally and truly that no form whatsoever, no feeling, perception, mental constituents, or consciousness whatsoever, be they past present or future, internal or external, gross or delicate, lowly or exalted, far or near, is either `mind' or `I' or `self' of mine. When he sees this clearly the instructed disciple of the Noble Ones becomes aweary of perception, aweary of the mental constituents, and aweary of consciousness. Being thus weary he comes to be passionless, and being passionless he finds Deliverance. Being Delivered he comes to know his Deliverance in this conviction; `Rebirth is no more, I have lived the highest life, my task is done, and now for me there is no more of what I have been.'"
-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 2 : India Part 1 > # 320
