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Bhadantācariya Buddhaghosa · 1956
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What this book knows
The mind, methodically purified through virtue, concentration, and insight, can see through compactness to the coreless, selfless flux that is existence.
mind-and-cognition
The characteristic of impermanence does not become apparent because, when rise and fall are not given attention, it is concealed by continuity.
BUDD-VSDM-RC-820Materiality has no core, is coreless, without core, as far as concerns any core of permanence, or of lastingness, or of pleasure, or of self.
BUDD-VSDM-RC-838self-and-identity
He does not see a self anywhere; he does not see a self of his own to be inferred in another's owning.
BUDD-VSDM-RC-837transformation
The thick, medium and fine kinds of darkness that conceal the truths are like the three kinds of cloud; then the man saw the moon in the sky free from clouds.
BUDD-VSDM-RC-862After abandoning terror and delight, and after becoming neutral in the investigation of formations, insight enters upon the state of the triple gateway to liberation.
BUDD-VSDM-RC-841faith-and-doubt
When a man brings formations to mind as impermanent and, having great resolution, acquires the faith faculty, he becomes a faith devotee.
BUDD-VSDM-RC-845Illuminates
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