As the World Honored one has said, "all Dharmas have no self."

What are all Dharmas, and what is meant by having no self? All Dharmas may be generally grouped into five categories:

  1. Mind Dharmas
  2. Dharmas interactive with the Mind
  3. Form Dharmas
  4. Dharmas not interactive with the Mind
  5. Unconditioned Dharmas

They are in this sequence because the first are supreme, the second interact with the first, the third are the shadows manifest by the previous two, the fourth are the positions in which the previous three are not found, and the last are revealed by the previous four.

The first, Mind Dharmas, include in general eight:

  1. The Eye Consciousness
  2. The Ear Consciousness
  3. The Nose Consciousness
  4. The Tongue Consciousness
  5. The Body Consciousness
  6. The Mind Consciousness
  7. The Manas Consciousness
  8. The Alaya Consciousness

The second, Dharmas interactive with the Mind, include in general fifty-one. They are divided into six categories:

  1. The five universally interactive
  2. The five particular states
  3. The eleven wholesome
  4. The six fundamental afflictions
  5. The twenty derivative afflictions
  6. The four unfixed

The five particular states are:

  1. Desire
  2. Resolution
  3. Recollection
  4. Concentration
  5. Judgment

The eleven wholesome Dharmas are:

  1. Faith
  2. Vigor
  3. Shame
  4. Remorse
  5. Absence of greed
  6. Absence of anger
  7. Absence of stupidity
  8. Light ease
  9. Non-laxness
  10. Renunciation
  11. Non-harming

The six fundamental afflictions are:

  1. Greed
  2. Anger
  3. Stupidity
  4. Arrogance
  5. Doubt
  6. Improper views

The twenty derivative afflictions are:

  1. Wrath
  2. Hatred
  3. Rage
  4. Covering
  5. Deceit
  6. Flattery
  7. Conceit
  8. Harming
  9. Jealousy
  10. Stinginess
  11. Lack of shame
  12. Lack of remorse
  13. Lack of faith
  14. Laziness
  15. Laxness
  16. Torpor
  17. Restlessness
  18. Distraction
  19. Improper knowledge
  20. Scatteredness

The four unfixed are:

  1. Sleep
  2. Regret
  3. Examination
  4. Investigation

The third category is the Form Dharmas. In general there are eleven kinds:

  1. Eyes
  2. Ears
  3. Nose
  4. Tongue
  5. Body
  6. Forms
  7. Sounds
  8. Smells
  9. Flavors
  10. Objects of touch
  11. Dharmas pertaining to form

The fourth category is the Dharmas not interactive with the Mind. In general, there are twenty-four:

  1. Attainment (acquisition)
  2. Life-faculty
  3. Generic similarity
  4. Dissimilarity
  5. The no thought samadhi
  6. The samadhi of extinction
  7. The reward of no thought
  8. Bodies of phonemes`
  9. Bodies of sentence
  10. Bodies of phonemes
  11. Birth
  12. Dwelling
  13. Aging
  14. Impermanence
  15. Revolution
  16. Distinction
  17. Interaction
  18. Speed
  19. Sequence
  20. Tim
  21. Direction
  22. Numeration
  23. Combination
  24. Discontinuity

The fifth category is the Unconditioned Dharmas of which there are, in general, six:

  1. Unconditioned empty space
  2. Unconditioned extinction which is attained by selection
  3. Unconditioned extinction which is unselected
  4. Unconditioned unmoving extinction
  5. Unconditioned extinction of feeling and thinking
  6. Unconditioned True Suchness

What is meant by there being no self? There are in general, two kinds of Non-self:

  1. The Non-self of Pudgala
  2. The Non-self of Dharmas