In the Non-Existent Mind...

This work, In the Non-Existent Mind, is a philosophical and analytical study examining dependent arising (pratītyasamutpāda) and emptiness (śūnyatā) through the framework of Buddhist logic of negation and double negation. The text analyses how the mind, conditioned by ignorance, constructs representations of “being,” “non-being,” and the “non-existence of non-being,” thereby giving rise to duality and conceptually conditioned existence. It shows that the fundamental cognitive error lies not only in asserting existence or non-existence, but in attributing phenomenological status to absence itself, transforming it into an object that can then be conceptually negated. Particular attention is given to the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination, which are presented not merely as a theoretical doctrine but as a structural description of conditioned experience. The text emphasises that the cessation of suffering is not achieved through the construction of new metaphysical frameworks, but through the cessation of craving (taṇhā) and clinging arising on the basis of feeling. Double negation is treated as a logical method for removing extreme views of existence and non-existence, while liberation is understood as the result of the practice of non-clinging and the purification of mental defilements, rather than as a consequence of conceptual analysis alone. The work combines classical insights of Buddhist philosophy with a rigorous logical structure, offering a systematic analysis of the conceptual mechanisms that give rise to duality and suffering. It is intended for scholars of Buddhist philosophy as well as readers interested in the logic of dependent arising and the practical implications of the Middle Way. Namaste