Contents

• Titlepage
• Contents
• Cover
• 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