sn12.35:4.1 “What are choices, sir, and who do they belong to?”
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sn12.35:4.2 “That’s not a cogent question,” said the Buddha. “You might say, ‘What are choices, and who do they belong to?’ Or you might say, ‘Choices are one thing, who they belong to is another.’ But both of these mean the same thing, only the phrasing differs.
sn12.35:4.3 Mendicant, if you have the view that the soul and the body are one and the same, there is no living of the spiritual life.
sn12.35:4.4 If you have the view that the soul is one thing, the body another, there is no living of the spiritual life.
sn12.35:4.5 Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One teaches by the middle way:
sn12.35:4.6 ‘Ignorance is a requirement for choices.’