\title{{\Large\bf Mysticism and beyond}\\
{\large\bf Buddhist phenomenology, part II}}
\author{\bf Henk Barendregt}
\date{Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen\\
Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure, Paris}

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\begin{center}May 22, 1993;\\
Revised March 8, 1996.
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\begin{abstract}
\noindent This paper is an extension of {\em Buddhist phenomenology}, 
Barendregt [1988], hereafter called part I.
That paper is a personal account of part of the mental 
training towards the purification of consciousness.
For the reading of the present paper, however, no acquaintance with 
part I is required. 

This paper continues the description of experiences obtained
during the practice of intensive vipassana meditation.
Moreover, based on these experiences a model is presented for one particular 
aspect of the human mind: the mechanism of desire, suffering, mysticism and
mental purification. The model makes very clear the
goal of the meditation training and explains well the phenomena described in
the Buddhist literature. Besides that the model is claimed to be useful for
the understanding of several psychosomatic phenomena.

I dare say that the
observed phenomena are valid in general and are of essential value for the
eventual theory of the human mind. \end{abstract}


\noindent {\bf Acknowledgments}. This paper has been written on the basis of
several intensive vipassana  meditation retreats under the skillful guidance
of the most ve\-ne\-ra\-ble Phra M.T.~Mettavihari, teacher of
vipassana meditation in Amsterdam and his assistant H.~van~Voorst. I thank
prof.~M.~Beeson of the University of San Jos\'e for corrections in a
draft of this paper and also prof.~Vladimir Uspensky of Moscow University 
who suggested several improvements.

