The I Concept

The Mahāmudrā Concerning the Union of a Buddha and His Consort

By Bodo Balsys

Published 2009 by Vajra Books, soft cover, 1161 pages

This revolutionary book looks into the nature of the Samsara and Shunyata interrelationship, questioning the foundations of logical inquiry and scientific application of the consciousness. A truly gripping book, essential for any serious Buddhist interested in this most important area of Buddhist Dialectics.

The pivotal argument brings us back to the Buddhas teaching of whether there is or is not a permanent soul as a mechanism to integrate the theory and science of being.

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Contents:


1. The Rules of Interpretation of Sacred Scriptures

2. The Two Truths

3. The West and the East, the Mahāmudrā of the Two Truths. (Preview this Chapter)

4. The Seven-Fold Reasoning: Part A. The Introduction

5. Essay on the Many and the One, (from Jñānagarbha’sCommentary on the Two Truths)

6. The Refutation of Partless Particles

7. The Sevenfold Reasoning: Part B. The Probandium

8. Dependent Origination

9. The Diamond-Slivers

10. The Non-Production from Other

11. The Four Extremes

12. The Four Alternatives and Refuting a Self of Persons

13. The Seven Cornered Reason

14. The Pudgala Doctrine

15. Enquiry into the Nature of “Self”

16. The Soul Concept and the Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine

17. Negating the “Self”

18. The River Simile

19. On the Evolution of Consciousness

20. Signposts of Consciousness

21. Commentary on Ᾱlayavijñāna as Seed

22. The Nature of Light (Preview this Chapter)

23. The Examination of Time in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

24. Śūnyatā, Consciousness, and Parinirvāņa

25. Voidness and Abundance

26. The Great Gates of Diamond Liberation – Part 1: Māra, Secret Mantra, and Dependent Origination

27. The Great Gates of Diamond Liberation – Part 2: Considerations of the Heart Centre

28. The Great Gates of Diamond Liberation – Part 3: The Centres below the Diaphragm and Voidness

29. A concluding Note on Emptiness. (Preview this Chapter)

30. The Buddha and the Soul-Concept

31. The Vijñānavādins on the Existence of “Self”

32. The Sambhogakāya Flower

33. The Uttaratantra of Maitreya and the Sambhogakāya Flower.

34. The Vijñānavādins on the Evolution of Consciousness.