ENLIGHTENMENT
 
IS
 
YOUR BIRTHRIGHT
 
THE DELUSION OF SELF
 
Discussed by
 
Bogoda Premaratne

 
CONTENTS
 
PART I—THEORY
 
 1.  ONE’S OWN EXISTENCE –
          THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT 
          BUT THE MOST NEGLETCTED SUBJECT OF STUDY                  05
 
 2.  THE NEED FOR LOOKING BEYOND THE ‘WORD’                         10
 
 3.  DIFFERENT WAYS OF GETTING KNOWLEDGE                            14
 
 4.  FOR THE MOST PART WE ARE LIVING IN IMAGINATION                 19
 
 5.  IGNORANCE  AS OPPOSED TO RIGHT UNDERSTANDING                   26
 
 6.  THE PRESENT WRITER’S SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING     34
 
 7.  HOW DO I RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND NATURE?                      42
 
 8.  NATURE IS ONE THING; HUMAN ACTION IS SOMETHING ELSE            47
 
 9.  THE ACTUALITY IN THE BUDDHA’S TEACHING                         56
 
 10. THE PROBLEM OF IMPERMANENCE                                    85
 
 11. CONDITIONALITY, CAUSALITY, CAUSATION TRANSCIENCE, IMPERMANENCE
          AND CHANGE THEY ALL MEAN THE SAME THING                   95
 
 12. THE CONDITIONALITY THAT TRANSFORMS INSENSITIVE MATTER 
          INTO MAN OR WOMAN WHO SUFFERS PAIN AND PLEASURE          103
 
 13. THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF THE PARASITE –   
          THE SELF THAT EXPRESSES ITSELF AS “I-MINE-AND-MY SELF”   119
 
 14. THE PROGRESSIVE  STAGES OF CONCEIVING A  SELF, EGO, OR
      PERSONALITY OUT OF THE  NATURAL PROCESS OF SENSE-EXPERIENCE  132
 
 15. HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS ORIGIN OF THE BELIEF IN A ‘SOUL’     152
 
 16. HOW CAN EGO-CONSCIOUSNESS, OR PERSONALITY-VIEW BECOME 
          THE CAUSE OF ALL MY SUFFERING?                           165

 
CONTENTS – Part II
 
     INTRODUCTION                                                  192
 
 17. THE WAY TO BE ENLIGHTENED BY ROOTING OUT THE DELUSION OF SELF 198
 
 18. PROGRESSIVE OPENING UP OF THE MIND                            207
 
 19. STAGE ONE – PURIFICATION OF MORALITY                          212
 
 20. RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW OF ‘KARMA’                     220
 
 21. STAGE TWO – PURIFICATION OF MIND                              233
 
 22. (II) RIGHT MINDEDNESS AND COMPREHENSIV AWARENESS              244
 
 23. (III) TECHNIQUE OF DEVELOPING MENTAL PURITY                   265
 
 24. STAGE THREE – OF THE SEVEN STAGE RELAY-
           PURIFICATION OF VIEW                                    288
 
 25. THE INTERVENING IMPEDIMENTS WE PUSHED ASIDE                   292
 
 26. WHAT IS THERE TO BE PURIFIED IN MY VIEWS ?                    300
 
 27. STAGE FOUR – PURIFICATION BY OVERCOMING DOUBT                 314
 
 28. STAGE FIVE – PURIFICATION BY KNOWLEDGE AND
           VISION OF WHAT IS PATH AND WHAT IS NOT                  316
 
 29. STAGE SIX – PURIFICATION BY KNOWLEDGE AND 
          VISION OF THE PATH PROGRESS.                             318
 
 30. STAGE SEVEN – PURIFICATION BY KNOWLEDGE AND VISION            331
 
 31. THE AFTERMATH OF COMPLETING THE SEVENTH STAGES                336
 
 32. ENLIGHTENMENT                                                 344
 
      ANNOTATED INDEX                                              356
 
      GLOSSARY                                                     369