A reflection on the Buddha’s correct perspective There was a time I wondered if the Buddha had gone too far. When he spoke of the “self” as illusion, I thought perhaps he missed something—that we were not the individual leaf on the tree, as he described, but the whole tree , the great Self, the All of All. But then a voice within asked: “If you are the Self… who recognizes that? If you are the All… who is there to know  this?” And like that, the illusion shattered again. Beca