Tobias,
That is why not-self is in inverted commas: “not-self” – meaning that it is not what is TAKEN TO BE “Self”. That is what I make out.
Of more substance is Siebe’s (quoting Lal): ‘Lal said: “But unless one really understands that there is no “experiencer” involved, it is not possible to stop births even in the apayas”.’ (November 3, 2019 at 11:02 am above.)
If you ask me, this forum topic has come to appear more like a Mahāyāna inquiry into emptiness, nothingness, sunnyata: no experiencer? The same old questions about Nibbana come up. Who is it, apart from the pancakkhandhas, that experiences? The manomayakaya shorn of all that is positive and negative, with only what is neutral remaining. Lal: ‘The key here is to UNDERSTAND why getting absorbed in either sukha or dukkha vedana is harmful. The mind needs to “SEE” that there is no actual “experiencer.”
For all but Arahants that has no practical value whatsoever. And if there WERE an Arahant on the Forum, even then it has no practical value, for an Arahant has gone the distance, he does not need to be here.