]> 2026-10-12T09:15:13-04:00 Books/The Selfless Mind 0 en No Harvey, P. <div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-fde817303c361d2dEND_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Harvey, P.|Peter Harvey]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-8e14bf6951e4b294END_WIDGET </div> * INTRODUCTION1 * ''Key non-Buddhist concepts''1 * ''Key Buddhist concepts''2 * '''Not-Self' and scholars''7 * ''Sources''9 * ''Methodology''11 *<center>'''Part I Exploring the Notion of Selflessness'''</center> * 1. THE QUESTION OF SELF17 * ''Scholars who see a metaphysical Self in the 'early Suttas'''17 * ''Uses of the word 'self' (atta) in the 'early Suttas'''19 * ''Passages which might indicate the acceptance of a Self''21 * ''Nibbāna as not-Self and not related to a Self''23 * ''Self as 'not being apprehended'''24 * ''A Self beyond 'existence' and 'non-existence'?''28 * ''Proof of the impossibility of a Self''31 * ''Buddhism and the Upaniṣads on Self''33 * ''The status of the 'person'''34 * ''Why is Self not denied?: the Buddha and the Annihilationists''38 * ''The 'I am' attitude: its cause, effect and its ending''40 * 2 THE MEANING OF 'NOT-SELF'43 * ''The role of viewing phenomena as not-Self'' 43 * ''The criteria for Self-hood''46 * ''Nibbāna and the Self-ideal''51 * 3 DEVELOPING A SELF WITHOUT BOUNDARIES54 * ''Living with citta as an 'island'''54 * ''Developing a 'great self'''55 * '' 'One of developed self' ''57 * ''The Arahat as self-contained and 'dwelling alone'''58 * ''The Arahat's boundaryless citta''60 * ''The Arahat's boundaryless, self-contained self''62 * 4 PERSONAL CONTINUITY AND RESPONSIBILITY64 * ''The person as a continuity''65 * ''Responsibility for actions''66 * ''The stability of character traits over lives''68 * ''What conserves character traits and the unity of the 'continuity'?''72 * ''To what extent are 'continuities' isolated from each other and the world?''74 * 5 MY WORLD AND ITS END78 * ''The Self-world link and the meaning of 'world' (loka)''78 * ''The Buddhist perspective on the world''79 * ''The undetermined questions''83 * ''The undetermined questions on the world'' 84 * 6 THE LIFE-PRINCIPLE AND THE BETWEEN-LIVES STATE89 * ''The undetermined questions on the life-principle''89 * ''The 'life-principle' accepted by early Buddhism''91 * ''Discernment and rebirth''95 * ''The question of the intermediary existence (antarā-bhava)''98 * ''The nature of the intermediary existence''102 * ''The gandhabba: spirit-being of the intermediary existence''105 * '''Part II: Saṃsāric and Nibbānic Discernment'''109 * 7 THE CENTRALITY OF DISCERNMENT111 * ''The nature and centrality of citta''111 * ''A person as discernment and the sentient body''116 * ''The vortical interplay of discernment and the sentient body''119 * 8 DISCERNMENT AND CONDITIONED ARISING122 * ''The nature of the constructing activities''122 * ''The conditioning of discernment by the constructing activities''124 * ''The conditioning of discernment by nāma-rūpa''127 * ''Discernment as conditioned by attention''129 * ''The conditioning of the sentient body by discernment''130 * ''Conditioned Arising as an analysis of the perceptual process''134 * 9 DISCERNMENT AND THE PERCEPTUAL PROCESS138 * ''The perceptual process in the 'early Suttas'''138 * ''The nature and functions of cognition (saññā)''141 * ''The activity of discernment (viññāṇa)''143 * ''The functions of discernment in the Abhidhamma 'process of cittas'''145 * ''The nature of viññāṇa''148 * ''The effect of karma on discernment in the perceptual process''151 * 10 BHAVAṄGA AND. THE BRlGHTLY SHINING MIND155 * ''Is the bhavaṅga concept ruled out by the 'early Sutta' world-view?''155 * '''Early Sutta' evidence for a bhavaṅga-type state''151 * ''The meaning of 'bhavaṅga'''160 * ''The roles of bhavaṅga''162 * ''The brightly shining citta''166 * ''Freedom from defilements''169 * ''The shining citta and bhavaṅga''170 * ''The Arahat's ever-shining citta''173 * ''The shining citta and the Buddha-nature'' 114 * ''The shining citta and the realms of rebirth'' 111 * 11 NIBBĀNA AS THE TIMELESS 'STOPPING' OF THE ENTIRE PERSONALITY180 * ''The nibbāna-element without remainder of upādi''181 * ''Nibbāna during life as not ever-present in the Arahat''182 * ''The 'stopping' of the personality-factors during life''185 * ''Nibbānic 'stopping' and nirodha-samāpatti'' 187 * ''Re-entry to the state of 'stopping'''188 * ''Nibbāna during life as 'unborn', 'unconstructed' and 'deathless'''189 * ''Nibbāna as a timeless object of insight''193 * 12 NIBBĀNA AS A TRANSFORMED STATE OF DISCERNMENT198 * ''Nibbāna as a form of discernment''199 * ''Nibbānic discernment as 'stopped', 'objectless' and 'unsupported'''201 * ''Udāna.80 as a description of nibbānic discernment''203 * ''The nature of nibbānic discernment''205 * ''Unsupported discernment and nibbāna beyond death''208 * ''The relation of nibbānic discernment to the Arahat's normal state''210 * ''Theravādin perspectives''214 * ''Mahāyāna perspectives''217 * 13 SEEKING THE TATHĀGATA227 * ''The 'untraceability' of the tathāgata''228 * ''The 'hard to fathom' tathāgata and Dhamma''231 * ''The tathāgata as 'not being apprehended'''235 * ''Nibbānic discernment and the views on the tathāgata after death''239 * 14 CONCLUSION246 * ''Appendix: The Theory of the Process of Cittas''252 * ''Notes''259 * ''Abbreviations''274 * ''Bibliography''277 * ''Index and glossary''282 *Charts * 1. ''The 'process of cittas' in waking consciousness, according to Abhidhamma theory''146 * 2. ''The citta-sequence in sleep''163 * 3. ''The citta-sequence in meditative jhānas''163 Academic true IV false Advanced Book The Selfless Mind Harvey, Peter. ''The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvāṇa in Early Buddhism''. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. First published 1995 by Curzon Press. http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/The%20Selfless%20Mind_Personality_Consciousness%20and%20Nirvana%20in%20Early%20Buddhism_Harvey_1995-2004r.pdf. This careful analysis of early Buddhist thought opens out a perspective in which no permanent Self is accepted, but a rich analysis of changing and potent mental processes is developed. It explores issues relating to the not-Self teaching: self-development, moral responsibility, the between-lives period, and the 'undetermined questions' on the world, on the 'life principle' and on the liberated one after death. It examines the 'person' as a flowing continuity centered on consciousness or discernment (''vinnana'') configured in changing minds-sets (''cittas''). The resting state of this is seen as 'brightly shining' - like the 'Buddha nature' of Mahayana thought - so as to represent the potential for Nirvana. Nirvana is then shown to be a state in which consciousness transcends all objects, and thus participates in a timeless, unconditioned realm. (Source: [https://www.routledge.com/The-Selfless-Mind-Personality-Consciousness-and-Nirvana-in-Early-Buddhism/Harvey/p/book/9780700703388 Routledge]) See especially chapter 10, ''Bhavaṅga'' and the Brightly Shining Mind. false The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvāṇa in Early Buddhism Harvey, Peter. ''The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvāṇa in Early Buddhism''. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. First published 1995 by Curzon Press. http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/The%20Selfless%20Mind_Personality_Consciousness%20and%20Nirvana%20in%20Early%20Buddhism_Harvey_1995-2004r.pdf.;The Selfless Mind;Buddha-nature as Luminosity;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Early Buddhism;anātman;Peter Harvey;The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvāṇa in Early Buddhism false The Selfless Mind-front.jpg Harvey, P. Peter Harvey 2004 Academic Publications This careful analysis of early Buddhist thought opens out a perspective in which no permanent Self is accepted, but a rich analysis of changing and potent mental processes is developed. It explores issues relating to the not-Self teaching: self-development, moral responsibility, the between-lives period, and the 'undetermined questions' on the world, on the 'life principle' and on the liberated one after death. It examines the 'person' as a flowing continuity centered on consciousness or discernment (''vinnana'') configured in changing minds-sets (''cittas''). The resting state of this is seen as 'brightly shining' - like the 'Buddha nature' of Mahayana thought - so as to represent the potential for Nirvana. Nirvana is then shown to be a state in which consciousness transcends all objects, and thus participates in a timeless, unconditioned realm. (Source: [https://www.routledge.com/The-Selfless-Mind-Personality-Consciousness-and-Nirvana-in-Early-Buddhism/Harvey/p/book/9780700703388 Routledge]) See especially chapter 10, ''Bhavaṅga'' and the Brightly Shining Mind. The Selfless Mind;The Selfless Mind;The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvāṇa in Early Buddhism The Selfless Mind;The Selfless Mind;The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvāṇa in Early Buddhism 2020-04-28T16:14:37Z

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