Table of Contents

Part 1 Exploring the notion of selflessness: the question of self; the meaning of "not-self"; developing a self without boundaries; personal continuity and responsibility; my world and its end; the life-principle and the between-lives states. Part 2 Samsaric and Nibbanic discernment: the centrality of discernment; discernment and conditioned arising; discernment and the perceptual process; Bhavanga and the brightly shining mind; Nibbana as the timeless "stopping" of the entire personality; Nibbana as a transformed state of discernment; seeking the Tathagata; conclusion.

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