Nairātmya
“selflessness”
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nairātmya · selflessness
in the texts
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
The state of selflessness whose realization renders further ritual practice unnecessary.
Even the [ritual] practices are not [needed to be] cognized when the pure reality is established—so long as that is being examined through union with the state of selflessness (nairātmya).
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
The doctrine of the absence of a substantial self in persons and phenomena, proclaimed by the Buddha and presented as the insight that dissolves false grasping.
Just as the notion "silver" in a piece of shell ceases when the shell is [truly] seen, so that [grasping] too utterly collapses, uprooted, by the vision of selflessness ({{term:
The Sage proclaimed the selflessness (nairātmya (selflessness of persons and dharmas)) of both dharmas and persons, and mind-only (cittamātra);
Through contact with the purity of selflessness ({{term: