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good = increasing well being of life, happiness etc
bad = increasing harm, pain, death

So I started reading some buddhist philosophy and I'm a bit confused.

Apparently every phenomena is empty, meaning there is no soul, or essence, or independent "thing". Kind of like Hume's bundle theory about the self.

Then we're told that we have to pierce through delusions and incorrect understandings to see the nature of things as they are.

My question is, if there is no self, what is it that gets deluded? What is it that pierces through delusion?
Can you recommend any writings/books that deal with this question?