The 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
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Preface 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
