Buddhist interjection: realize that there is no self (and no free will), and wonder in which century will people stop talking nonsense like "be yourself". http

Buddhist interjection: realize that there is no self (and no free will), and wonder in which century will people stop talking nonsense like "be yourself". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta Edit - Kierkegaard's rambling quoted in the article points to the difficulty of pinpointing the "self", the essence of a human (where's the essence, the self, the soul of a car - a buddhist would ask?): > Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.