Vagrakkhedikâ (Diamond-cutter), section 25

‘What do you think then, O Subhuti, does a Tathagata think in this wise: Beings have been delivered by me? You should not think so, O Subhuti. And why? Because there is no being, O Subhuti, that has been delivered by the Tathagata. And, if there were a being, O Subhuti, that has been delivered by the Tathagata, then the Tathagata would believe in self, believe in a being, believe in a living being, and believe in a person. And what is called a belief in self, O Subhuti, that is preached as no-belief by the Tathagata. And this is learned by children and ignorant persons; and they who were preached as children and ignorant persons, O Subhuti, were preached as no-persons by the Tathagata, and therefore they are called children and ignorant persons.’ (25)