In the Buddhist tradition a human being is made up of Body-Mind
The Mind is further subdivided into
1]Feelings
2]Thoughts[names that form the basis of language]
3]Violations with knowledge string from thought
4]Consciousness
The five bundles is termed the five Skandas.
Anatta is the foundation of Buddhism and is the teaching of the Egolessness of a personal self. The teaching consist of discourses to show that each of the five skandas are illusionary and therefore empty. All living beings are nothing but mirages that appear within Awareness.
Samsara is a 'dream' world that apparently exist as a result of delusion in believing the illusions[mirages] to be real.
We are no different from other imaginary beings like Santa Clause, Spider Man, Batman, Super man, Micky Mouse, Donald duck and others. In the stories involving these personalities, there are occasion of sufferings and joy.
Now we ask the question who suffer and who gets to enjoy, when All beings are false and illusionary. Here I part with a quote from the sutra. There are suffering, but NO ONE who suffer.
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