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Analyze whether the I that is inherently self-established in the context of the mind-body complex could have a way of existing other than being part of the mind and body or separate from them.

Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

Analyze whether the I that is inherently self-established in the context of the mind-body complex could have a way of existing other than being part of the mind and body or separate from them.

Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

This Chittamatra view, then, is asserting that things have self-established existence, standing in their own place as what can be found upon ultimate analysis.

A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Five: Relative Bodhichitta and Deepest Bodhichitta 2009

Analyze whether the I that is inherently self-established in the context of the mind-body complex could have a way of existing other than being part of the mind and body or separate from them.

Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

In other words, self-established existence is the object to be refuted.

A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Five: Relative Bodhichitta and Deepest Bodhichitta 2009

When we look at what the object of automatically arising unawareness is, then in this case it is a person or “me” that seems to just appear, to just pop up, as if its existence were self-established, all by itself from its own side.

A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Six: Deepest Bodhichitta, Continued 2009

So it is very important to investigate whether or not there is something on the side of objects as the backing support when our minds are aimed at those objects as if they had self-established existence.

A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Five: Relative Bodhichitta and Deepest Bodhichitta 2009

If it were findable, that would prove self-established existence (inherent existence), and that is what is being refuted here by Prasangika.

A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Five: Relative Bodhichitta and Deepest Bodhichitta 2009

On the other hand, if we can perceive things in a nonconceptual way as being devoid of self-established existence or identities, then when we arise from that state, we can subsequently see all things to be like an illusion.

A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Six: Deepest Bodhichitta, Continued 2009

On behalf of other respectable self-established women who have no qualms with dabbling in prime meat territory, I'd like to set the record straight once and for all.

Nicole Williams: 10 Tips for Catching a Cougar 2009