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The/a
very important concept in Buddhism goes something like this: All things
(speaking in terms of things we experience, no metaphysical or
ontological implications) are impermanent, unreliable.
Because
of this, no thing can provide lasting satisfaction. If we cling to these
unreliable things, it will result in distress for us.
Additionally,
one of the things that distinguishing about Buddhism is the "not-self"
concept. This is by and large an idea which developed in reference to
Indian/Hindu concepts of a soul or a self, the "atman", but it is also
applicable to and targets the general sense of "self-ness".
The
point is not that we are all one in some mystical unity or anything like
that, it's simply that there is no single thing which we can know that
is a stable, permanent "self", a person is a fluctuating bundle of
processes without essence.
The whole point of all that mumbo
jumbo is for the purpose of removing attachment and craving. Because, as
said before, attachment to what is unreliable will result in stress,
suffering, even if very subtle.
When all things are understood
as unreliable, unsatisfactory in the long term and without self essence,
theoretically speaking eventually by making this understanding complete
and integrated, attachment and craving can be ended, and though that,
comes the ending of all agitation. This is nirvana. The ending of
clinging to all phenomena. That's all.
There's not much of anything mystical in there.