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A list of concepts to analyse to determine if and where the self lies.
Items which change from moment to moment. Do they contain a self?
Enlightenment is becoming fully conscious of this and of its artificial / illusory nature; this way we become free from being slave to those illusions. It is sometimes called a purification of the three worlds or three spheres, it is a perfection of all six paramitas or perfections. (See link below).
Everything might be thought as structured into those three at all levels, but it is said that is just an illusion due to the way our conditioned mental works.
We have five main emotions but when they are all together they produce another and become six dimensions or six lokas. Loka means dimension. There are three worlds because the roots of all emotions are three attachment, anger and ignorance. These three emotions accumulate and then produce these three dimensions, which are relatively similar to and connected with our body, speech and mind. So the three worlds, three loka or the six lokas are more or less the same thing.
E.g. Self, a person who is mind and/or matter.
E.g. A connecting action, such as giving of a gift which is mind and/or matter.
E.g. Another, a receiver that is mind and/or matter.
The six perfections.
The two truths.