" What is clinging to a self rooted in? Actually, it is not rooted in anything. If we see that, then naturally ego-clinging will not happen. The reason it has no root is that when we look for the object that we are clinging to as “me,” as a self, we cannot find it. "

― Khenchen Thrangu , Vivid Awareness: The Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar