Under the influence of delusion, most people believe that they themselves are perform actions. The irony is that they are not their own masters at all. Their behavior is totally controlled by intention, which is lacking in reflexive awareness. Essentially, delusion or ignorance is blindness to the Three Characteristics, especially the third one, non - self or anatta. Specifically, ignorance is not clearly knowing that the conditions usually taken to be an individual, a " me " and " you ", are simply a stream of physical and mental phenomena, constantly arising and ceasing, related and connected by the cause and effect process. This stream is in a state of continuous flux.
So we could say that " person " is simply the overall result of the feelings, thoughts, desires, habits, biases, views, knowledge, beliefs and so on, At any particular point in time, they are inherited from social and environmental factors, all constantly changing. Not clearly knowing this, there is clinging to one or another of these conditions as self or belonging to self. This is ignorance, the determinant for kamma formation that leads to the process of suffering along the cycle of Paticcasamupada.
By THE BUDDHA's Core Teachings
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