"Letting go of attachment to the separate, static self is a concept that has been central to Buddhist and Hindu texts stretching back more than 3,500 years. A central theme within Buddhism and Hinduism is that there is no separate, static self that exists independently of anything else (Hanh, 1999; Shonin et al., 2014). Thus, becoming fixated on such an ever- changing self and the belief that happiness arises from fulfilling the desires of such a constructed self is seen an underlying aspect of individual suffering (Dalai Lama, 2009; Shonin et al., 2016; Van Gordon et al., 2018). https://self-compassion.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Whitehead-et-al.-2021-The-relative-benefits-of-nonattachment-to-self-and.pdf