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Actually, the Buddha didn't simply teach selflessness as an ethical state to be developed. He also rejected the proto-Hindu doctrine of Atman. If the Buddha were merely encouraging the development of selflessness, one would be hard pressed to explain the following exchange between the Buddha and...

By the way--responding to an earlier post in this thread--when the Buddha spoke of the 'disappearance' of the Dhamma (Dharma), he wasn't referring to books--the teachings were an oral tradition during his lifetime. In the Saµyutta NikŒya, the Buddha is quoted as stating that so long as there...

It's important to clarify that the Buddha didn't say that everything was illusory in the sense of being nonexistent. What he taught was that, due to dependent origination, impermanence, and non-self, things are real, but aren't exactly as they appear--or as we usually imagine them to be...