About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Irony, Metaphors, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Tragedy of the commons, The Myth of Sisyphus, Ignoratio elenchi, K an, The Gift of the Magi, Musical chairs, Yin and yang, Herostratus, Bootstrapping, Gordian Knot, Coming out, Mindstream, Late bloomer, Survival of the fittest, Betamax, List of metonyms, Five wisdoms, Closeted, Greek to me, List of inventors killed by their own inventions, Hungry ghost, Salt and Light, Sarcasm, Poetic justice, Redpill, Gates of horn and ivory, Irony punctuation, Indra's net, Cherry picking, Bad apples excuse, Tunnel vision, Black-and-white dualism, Roof of the World, B ja, Jungle, Palace of Necessidades, Apollo archetype, Teaching grandmother to suck eggs, Pear-shaped, Pars pro toto, China Syndrome, Enchanted loom, Ship of state, Unmarked grave, New Testament military metaphors, Salad days, Technical debt, Post turtle, Green shoots, Cabin fever, Nutshell, Unintentional humor, Battle of egos, Metaphor and metonymy, Invincible ignorance fallacy, Turkeys voting for Christmas, Neurathian bootstrap, Hue and cry, Totum pro parte, Aesopian language, Deferred reference, Touchstone, McNamara fallacy, The price of milk, Fatted calf, Representation, Post-irony, Drunkard's search, Panopticon gaze, Accismus, 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 per...
