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Buddhist Wisdom: The Mystery of the Self
Author Grimm, George (著) ; Grimm, M. Keller (編)
Date1978
Pages70
PublisherMotilal Banarsidass
Publisher Url https://www.mlbd.in/
LocationDelhi, India [德里, 印度]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
AbstractThe author devotes a good part of his book to the elaboration of the anatta doctrine; he states that the Buddha sought for the atta in the indirect way, by taking away from the atta everything that is not the atta. The Buddha followed this way so radi
Table of contentsPreface v
The Self 1
Section 1: The Primitive Problem 1
Section 2: The external world, as conveyed to me through the five outer senses, is not my Self 1
Section 3: The mental objects (dhamma) are not my Self 1
Section 4: My corporeal organism is not my Self 4
Section 5: Cognition is not my Self 5
Section 6: I am not a so-called soul 6
Section 7: Willing is not my Self 7
Section 8: The true Self 8
The Suffering Self 10
Section 9: Will, the indefatigable "house-builder" 10
Section 10: During my world-wandering I experience every possible sensation 10
Section 11: Everything ends in suffering 11
Section 12: The difficulty of recognizing any life as ending in suffering 12
Section 13: Harm-producing sense-pleasures bring about the greatest suffering 13
Section 14: Mean sense-pleasures lead to sorrowful rebirth 16
Section 15: A siurvey of our world-wanderings 18
Section 16: The heaven and hell-worlds in particular 19
Section 17: The seeming impossibility of recollecting former existences 21
The Delivered Self 21
Section 18: Our goal-the realization of the mind's deliverance 24
Section 19: The relation between craving and the activity of the mind 27
Section 20: The influence of the habitual tendencies on the organism 28
Section 21: The possibility of the deliverance of the mind 29
Section 22: The annihilation of thirst through right cognition 32
Section 23: In particular the desire to see or communicate with departed friends 33
Section 24: The annihilation of craving for the own organism 35
Section 25: The training of the thinking-faculty through its methodical development as prerequisite for right
cognition 36
Section 26: The gradual overcoming of thirst 39
Section 27: The deliverance of the mind is the freedom in the use of our cognizing-apparatus 43
Section 28: The bliss of non-willing 46
The Extinguished Self 50
Section 29: The Self is transcendent: all concepts apply only to Not-Self (anattā) 50
Section 30: The concept of extinction in particular 51
Section 31: The concept of nothingness 55
Section 32: The Absolute State 57
Section 33: The "submerging in one's own depths"; the immeasurability of the Absolute State 57
Section 34: The realm of Essences 60
Appendix 62
ISBN8120805100 (Hardcover); 9788120805101 (Hardcover)
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