A Friend wisely asked:

>Why can’t one have a ‘self’ that is changing…???

 

In short:
Because the concept of “self” – itself – prescribe
that this “ego” remains the same overtime!
So also do we experience it: Though older ‘I’ am the
same ‘person’ with the same ‘name’ we say & think…

The name = empty designation or ‘label’ remains the same,
but nothing of what it ‘names’ or signifies, whether mental
or physical remains the same even for a millisecond!

Secondly: ‘Self’ is assumed to be in full power over itself…
Otherwise: If self have no power over itself: Who has then?
But realistically all events depend on specific causes & not any ‘self’!

Nothing is the same. Everything is changing.
Nothing is a static entity. Everything is a dynamic process.
Nothing is under full control of a self. Everything is dependent.

Thirdly:
There is individuality:
Only a single process of the 5 clusters of clinging = A ‘person’
experiences the kammic after effects of it ‘own’ past activities…
Other clusters of clinging = ‘persons’ do not get these kammic effects.

But there is no identity:
Nothing within this ever re-arising process of 5 clusters of clinging
is ever the ‘same’ nor ‘identical’, nor an ‘identity’…

The ‘person’ is thus neither ever the ‘same’ nor ‘another’,
but just a process of ever changing momentary states…
Nothing worth clinging to … Hehehe ;-)