"The body changes constantly, it was born and then it will die and right now it is in constant flux, whatever it is that does not have a definitive nature can not be truly existent." The experience that we are not the body at first surprises people, but then it's really a relief, who wants to be something that gets old, gets sick and then dies? Obviously a passing body can not be the basis for true happiness. "
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