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'Api khvāham avuso imasmim yeva vyamamatte kalevare saññimhi samanake lokam paññāрemi . . .'

adhamma.'

SAMYUTTA NIKAYA, i. 62;= A., ii. 48.

Kullūpaman vo bhikkhave ajānantehi dhamma pi vo pahātabbā, pag-eva MAJJHIMA NIKHAYA, i. 135.

'Der Buddhismus ist die einzige, eigentlich positivistische Religion die uns die Geschichte zeigt.'

NIETZSCHE.

'We shall find that every important philosophical reformation, after a time of too highly strained metaphysical dogmatism or unsatisfying scepticism, has been begun by some man who saw the necessity of looking deeper into the

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

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XV

I. The Manual and the History of Psychology. II. The Date of the

Manual (p. xviii). III. On the Commentaries and the Importance

of the Atthasālinī (p. xx). IV. On the Method and Argument of

the Manual (p. xxvi). V. On the Chief Subject of Inquiry-

Dhammā (p. xxxii). VI. On the Inquiry into Rūpam and the

Buddhist Theory of Sense (p. xli.). VII. On the Buddhist Philo-

sophy of Mind and Theory of Intellection (p. lxiii.). VIII. On the

Buddhist Notions of Good, Bad, and Indeterminate' (p. lxxxii.).

THE GENESIS OF THOUGHTS (Cittuppada-kandam).

GOOD STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

The Eight Main Types of Thought relating to the Sensuous

Universe (Kā māvacara-aṭṭha-mahācittāni)

Good in relation to the Universe of Form (rūpa vacara-

Methods for inducing Jhāna: I. The Eight Artifices. II. The

Stations of Mastery (p. 58). III. The Three First Deliver-

ances (p. 63). IV. The Four Jhanas of the Sublime Abodes

(p. 65). V. The Jhāna of Foul Things (p. 69).

Good in relation to the Universe of the Formless (a rūpāva -

cara-kusalam). The Four Jhanas connected with Form-

less Existence (cattari arupajjhānāni)

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