sn44.10:2.1 And then, not long after Vacchagotta had left, Venerable Ānanda said to the Buddha:
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sn44.10:2.2 “Sir, why didn’t you answer Vacchagotta’s question?”
sn44.10:2.3 “Ānanda, when Vacchagotta asked me whether the self survives, if I had answered that ‘the self survives’ I would have been siding with the ascetics and brahmins who are eternalists.
sn44.10:2.4 When Vacchagotta asked me whether the self does not survive, if I had answered that ‘the self does not survive’ I would have been siding with the ascetics and brahmins who are annihilationists.
sn44.10:2.5 When Vacchagotta asked me whether the self survives, if I had answered that ‘the self survives’, would that have facilitated the arising of the knowledge that
sn44.10:2.6 all things are not-self?”
sn44.10:2.7 “No, sir.”
sn44.10:2.8 “When Vacchagotta asked me whether the self does not survive, if I had answered that ‘the self does not survive’, Vacchagotta—who is already confused—would have got even more confused, thinking:
sn44.10:2.9 ‘It seems that the self that I once had no longer survives.’”