The Diamond Sutra
31. Conventional Truth Should Be Cut Off
Subhuti, if anyone should say that Buddha declares any conception of egoity, do you consider he would understand my teaching aright?
No, World-Honored One, such a man would not have any sound understanding of the Tathagata's teaching, because the World-Honored One declares that notions of selfhood, personality, entity, and separate individuality, as really existing, are erroneous-these terms are merely figures of speech.
[Thereupon Buddha said:]
Subhuti, those who aspire to the consummation of incomparable enlightenment should recognize and understand all varieties of things in the same way and cut off the arising of [views that are mere] aspects. Subhuti, as regards aspects, the Tathagata declares that in reality they are not such. They are [merely] called "aspects".