Great Regulars: When you treat your body, you say

"This is my body." When you refer to your mind, you say "This is my mind." So the self--in our natural thinking--the self appears as though it is what possesses the body and the mind, and that the body and the mind as the objects to be possessd by this self.

And in the earlier times, there used to be people who could record their past lives. And then upon recording their past lives . . . so that self, which existed in the previously lives, it is totally disconnected with the part of this life, the present life, the present mind. And yet, this self which [tracks?] by grades from the previous lives to the present life from which this evolved the people, they inferred or they concluded the existence of a self which is distinct from the body and the mind.

from Tenzin Gyatso: The Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama: Introductory Teaching on Buddhism for Tibetan Students

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