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Not-self discourses and Abhidharma analysis

Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta / Abhidharma

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If experiences form a causal stream, must we posit an unchanging owner behind it?

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Story 1What makes a mind and a self persist?

Buddhist not-self — Continuity without an owner

The question that opens it

If experiences form a causal stream, must we posit an unchanging owner behind it?

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    Indian Buddhist theories analyze mental life as interrelated physical and psychological processes rather than the activity of an independent, enduring substantial self.

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    • Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: Introduction; §1 History of the Issue

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    Later notions such as mind-stream, life-continuum mind, and repository consciousness seek to explain continuity and karma without reinstating a permanent self.

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    • Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §1.1 The Not-Self Doctrine; §5 Theories of Mind

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  1. From the fifth century BCE

    Not-self analysis opens a tradition that treats persons as aggregates and causal processes.

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