About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Metaphor, Tragedy of the commons, The Myth of Sisyphus, Ignoratio elenchi, K an, Musical chairs, Yin and yang, Bootstrapping, Gordian Knot, Coming out, Mindstream, Late bloomer, Survival of the fittest, Betamax, Five wisdoms, Closeted, Greek to me, Hungry ghost, Salt and Light, Redpill, Gates of horn and ivory, Indra's net, Cherry picking, Bad apples excuse, Tunnel vision, Black-and-white dualism, Roof of the World, B ja, Jungle, Apollo archetype, Teaching grandmother to suck eggs, Pear-shaped, China Syndrome, Iron, Enchanted loom, Ship of state, Unmarked grave, New Testament military metaphors, Salad days, Technical debt, Post turtle, Green shoots, Cabin fever, Nutshell, Battle of egos, Invincible ignorance fallacy, Turkeys voting for Christmas, Neurathian bootstrap, Hue and cry, Aesopian language, Touchstone, McNamara fallacy, The price of milk, Fatted calf, Representation, Drunkard's search, Panopticon gaze, Gold in the mine, City on a Hill. Excerpt: Mindstream in Buddhist philosophy is the moment-to-moment "continuum" (Sanskrit: sa t na) of awareness. There are a number of terms in the Buddhist literature that may well be rendered "mindstream." For these, see below. The mindstream doctrine, like most Buddhist doctrines, is not homogeneous and shows historical development, different applications according to context and varied definitions employed by different Buddhist traditions. Most Buddhist schools are committed doctrinally to an tman (Pali: anatt ), "non-self," the teaching that none of the things perceived by the senses constitute a "self." As Thanissaro Bhikkhu explains, ..".the Buddha was asked point-blank whether or not there was a self, he refused to answer. When later asked why, he said that to hold either that there is a self or that there is no self is to fall into extreme forms of wrong view that ma...
