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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Titlepage
  • Copyright
  • Introduction
  • Not-self Q & A
  • Readings
    • Some different doctrines about the self in the time of the Buddha
    • Assuming a self
    • Questions to avoid
    • The four noble truths & their duties
    • A strategic sense of self as agent
    • A strategic sense of self as consumer
    • A strategic sense of self as commentator
    • Listening to the Dhamma
    • Wrong & right use of the not-self teaching
    • Results
    • A non-returner still has a lingering sense of “I am”
    • Unbinding & the realization of unbinding
    • The all, which equals the world of the six senses, is empty of self
    • Nothing beyond the all can be described
    • But what lies beyond the all can be experienced
    • Principles for interpreting the teachings
    • Eel-wriggling
    • Two questions put aside
    • The raft
  • Glossary
  • Abbreviations
  • Further readings

Copyright 2025 ṭhānissaro bhikkhu

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. To see a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. “Commercial” shall mean any sale, whether for commercial or non-profit purposes or entities.

Questions about this book may be addressed to

Metta Forest Monastery

Valley Center, CA 92082-1409

U.S.A.

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