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Whitehead's `actual entity' and the Buddha&a(14)

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      E'en as the teacher... being such a one,
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     25. Ibid., III.  136.  The  Book  of Kindred  Sayings
      (London: Luzac & Co., 1954), pt.  III, p. 115.
     26. Ibid.   Also,  the  Nakulapitar  section  of  the
      Samyutta  Nikaaya,  III.  1-5, carries  the  same
      discussion on not setting up a self or an I.
     27. Po.t.t.hapada  Sutta of the Diigha Nikaaya, Sutta
      IX.  The translation is from The Dialogues of the
      Buddha, trans. T. W. Rhys Davids, Sacred Books of
      the  Buddhists,  vol.  2  (London: Luzac  &  Co.,
      1956), pt. I, p. 263
     28. Mahaaparinibbaana  Sutta   of the Diigha Nikaaya,
      II. 120, 156.

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      Unequalled  among all the men that are,
      Successor  of the  prophets  of old time,
      Mighty  by wisdom, and in insight clear...
      Hath died!(29)

     Accordingly, the  human  organism  is  compounded, an
     aggregate  of "mental and material qualities."  These
     refer   to  the   five   skandhas,   which   are  [1]
     corporeality (ruupa), [2] feeling or sensitive nature
     (vedanaa) ,  [3]  primary  imagery  (sa^mj~naa),  [4]
     interplay   of  the  imagery   or  activity   thereof
     (sa^mskaara)  ,   and   [5]   conscious   play   or
     discriminative  knowledge  ( vij~naana ).  Any of the
     above cannot be identified  with a self or a being so
     as  to assert  "I feel"  or "I  am conscious, " as if
     feeling and consciousness  are separate entities.  In
     separation  they lose all meaning  but in unity  they
     gain  something.   They  are  all  intimately   bound
     together  to  form  the  unit  of  becoming  that  we
     conventionally call the self.  The classic expression
     of the unit of becoming is presented in the Questions
     of  King  Milinda  (Milindapa~nha,  25) ,  where  the
     learned  monk  questions  the  validity  of assigning
     reality  to the constituent  parts  of a chariot.  He
     points  out that the wheels are not the chariot;  nor
     is the carriage, etc.  But the chariot is.  Likewise,
     the  constituent  parts  of  a king  or  a monk  lack
     reality  in themselves  but  the  king  or monk  does