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[Kumāra]jīva says: Burning forests and wilderness, its formidable roar blazes forth, like a brave warrior deploying troops to secure victory. Yet searching for it in reality, there is no real agent. The body is also like this: its movements and activities initiate myriad undertakings, and when viewed from delusion, it seems to have a ruler; yet investigating its origin, there is no self. [Seng]zhao says: Unfettered autonomy is what is called a 'self'. But external fire's arising and extinguishing depends on firewood; fire has no self-mastery. Fire lacking self-mastery means fire has no self. Since external fire has no self, internal fire is likewise by analogy.

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