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Buddhism asserts that there is no permanent self. How can one be liberated from the samsara if there is no personal self to be liberated?

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1. Buddhism asserts that there is no permanent self. How can one be liberated from the samsara if there is no personal self to be liberated?

The meaning of liberation differs from how Western people view liberation. You are not being liberated in the same sense that we consider being liberated to mean the freedom to be ourselves or our true self.

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