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it is obliterated, and makes way for another. This 

 making and unmaking of ideas doth very properly 

 denominate the mind active. This much is certain 

 and grounded on experience. . . ." {Principles, 

 xxviii.) 



A good many of us, I fancy, have reason to think 

 that experience tells them very much the contrary; 

 and are painfully familiar with the obsession of the 

 mind by ideas which cannot be obliterated by any 

 effort of the will and steadily refuse to make way for 

 others. But what I desire to point out is that if 

 Gautama was equally confident that he could " make 

 and unmake " ideas — then, since he had resolved self 

 into a group of ideal phantoms — the possibility of 

 abolishing self by volition naturally followed. 



Note .9 (p. 68). 



According to Buddhism, the relation of one life 

 to the next is merely that borne by the flame of one 

 lamp to the flame of another lamp which is set alight 

 by it. To the " Arahat " or adept " no outward form, 

 no compound thing, no creature, no creator, no ex- 

 istence of any kind, must appear to be other than a 

 temporary collocation of its component parts, fated 

 inevitably to be dissolved." — (Rhys Davids, Hihhert 

 Lectures, p. 211.) 



The self is nothing but a group of phenomena 

 held together by the desire of life ; when that desire 

 shall have ceased, " the Karma of that particular 

 chain of lives will cease to influence any longer any 

 distinct individual, and there will be no more birth ; 



