/lit/ - Literature

>>22045848
Annihilation sees the subject cease to exist after its current life. Reincarnation sees the subject live again and again after its current life. Buddhism supposes that the subject is reincarnated for as long as it clings to life as the logical consequence of doing so, and has the choice to let go.
>>22045895
Non-self negates the ego, not the subject. The ego is a physiological construct that keeps us addicted to life, acting as a lens through which people regard things as "happening to them" and suffer as a consequence, rather than recognizing things as "simply happening" and observing them for what they are, in which there is no misery.