This is from the commentaries, i am only discussing the buddhas teachings as found in the canon, excluding the abhidhamma and comentries which were not taught by buddha."Mere suffering exists, no sufferer is found;
The deeds are, but no doer of the deeds is there;
Nibbāna is, but not the man that enters it;
The path is, but no traveler on it is seen."
"Whosoever is not clear with regard to the conditionally arisen phenomena, and does not comprehend that all the actions are conditioned through ignorance, etc., he thinks that it is an ego that understands or does not understand, that acts or causes to act, that comes to existence at rebirth .... that has the sense-impression, that feels, desires, becomes attached, continues and at rebirth again enters a new existence" (Vis.M. XVII. 117).
Notice all forms of protecting rebirth stem from the wrong insights the commentaries put forward, remember dont believe something because it is scripture.
Yes this is anatta.anattā - 'not-self', non-ego, egolessness, impersonality,
is the last of the three characteristics of existence (ti-lakkhana, q.v.) The anattā doctrine teaches that neither within the bodily and mental phenomena of existence, nor outside of them, can be found anything that in the ultimate sense could be regarded as a self-existing real ego-entity, soul or any other abiding substance.
This is the central doctrine of Buddhism, without understanding which a real knowledge of Buddhism is altogether impossible. It is the only really specific Buddhist doctrine, with which the entire Structure of the Buddhist teaching stands or falls. All the remaining Buddhist doctrines may, more or less, be found in other philosophic systems and religions, but the anattā-doctrine has been clearly and unreservedly taught only by the Buddha, wherefore the Buddha is known as the anattā-vādi, or 'Teacher of Impersonality'.
This is mundane dhamma, taught to lay people, other wanderers and brahmins, his own higher dhamma did not include itKammic accumulations and habitual reactions continue, until cessation
If you can provide a sutta that shows that it is taught as higher dhamma please show me, however do not show me commentaries which as i said are not buddhas teachings and not something from the abhidhamma which was a later addition.