Sentence examples for anatman from inspiring English sources

Although Buddhism denies the existence of an unchanging, substantial soul or self as against the notion of the atman it teaches the concept of anatman (Pali: anatta; "non-self")—it holds to a belief in the transmigration of the karma that is accumulated by an individual in life.

Two key notions, even in early Buddhism, are those of anatta (Sanskrit anatman; "no-self") and nibbana.

For some Buddhists, the "substantial" character of this capacity seemed to imply the presence in each of us of a "true self"—not the egoistic self that appears as a function of ignorance, habit formations and craving forms of desire, and that is dissolved through Buddhist training and the realization of no-self (anatman), but rather an unassailably aware core of being-present.