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This is a: snip, written by Birgit Kellner 516 days ago.
Keywords: svasaṃvedana

“If it were really of primary concern that in truth only the light exists, why does it then take the trouble of illuminating and enlightening, and does not content itself with merely shining?”

A good question, as far as theories of reflexive awareness (svasaṃvedana), or self-awareness, in Buddhism are concerned, and their relation to various functions of mental events (illuminating objects or illuminating themselves, or just shining forth) – formulated from a (perhaps not so) unexpected perspective:

Paul Hacker, “The Idea of the Person in the Thinking of Vedānda Philosophers”, in: Wilhelm Halbfass (ed.), “Philology and Confrontation”, Albany, NY: Suny Press, p. 160.