In his answer to Kāśyapa, the Buddha states that he teaches the “Dharma by the middle,” in other words the Middle Way, and then proceeds to expound the twelve-fold chain of dependent origination… . Dependent origination puts forth the view that one cannot abstract an unchanging person or even discontinuous persons from the process of cause and effect. The person is the process and changes along with it. There is no unchanging entity that suffers the effects of its own deeds, nor is there a disconnection between the one who acts and the one who experiences the result. In fact, there is no entity except in a provisional sense; there is simply the process wherein one thing leads to another. This is the Middle Way because it shows that there is change, as opposed to eternalism; and that within that change there is continuity, as opposed to annihilationism.