Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Buddhacarita', 'fragments/reports' and 'Medical Conceptions of Health pre-Renaissance'

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6 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind

5987	Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

7906	When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health

22237

The Greeks had a single word meaning both 'beautiful' and 'good' [Pormann]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7904	The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha]

7905	The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

24043

Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle]