that would be conforming with those contemplatives & brahmans who are exponents of annihilationism [the view that death is the annihilation of consciousness]. If I—being asked by Vacchagotta the wanderer if there is a self—were to answer that there is a self, would that be in keeping with the arising of knowledge that all phenomena are not-self?" "No, lord." "And if I—being asked by Vacchagotta the wanderer if there is no self—were to answer that there is no self, the bewildered Vacchagotta would become even more bewildered: ), # Right single quote ('â', Does the self I used to have now not exist?â" See also: MN 2; MN 72; MN 109; SN 12:35; SN 22:59; AN 4:42; AN 10:93–96 - --> - - - -