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Selected early discourses address suffering, changing experience and dependent arising. How do their arguments bear on the task of release?
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Guided course · Module 3 · Lesson 7
Suffering, impermanence and not-self
Early Buddhist discourses challenge the hope of finding a secure self in changing experience, and do so for the sake of liberation. Not-self, the lesson shows, is not the claim that nothing exists.