Purejāta-Pacchājāta – Condition of Latency and Manifestation

The condition wherein things, material or immaterial, exist rather as a potential, without actually being manifest, is what is called a condition of latency. It is the condition of mental or material phenomena existing in germ form (the term Purejata literally means pre-nascence).While anything (any phenomena) that already is in existence exists in the condition…

Continuity

Sometimes people studying Buddhism, especially in relation to the vipassanā schools, end up with some conclusion that there is no continuity in mental and material phenomena…So here we want to give some food for thought related to continuity.In matter of the most rudimentary form, one may think how at times one thing pretty much bumps…

Aññamañña Paccaya – Condition of Correspondence

Wherever two (or more) phenomena possess similar characteristics, a correspondence between these two phenomena can be seen. And whatever is known about one of them, may hold true also about the other. That is, any point of contact between two things known, may permit a certain exploration of things unknown, for him who comprehends this…

Upanissaya Paccaya – Condition of Interdependence

No phenomenon is a single isolated unit. All things are in some way interrelated. And being thus, the condition of one thing usually depends on the conditions of various other things. Using the consideration of the four elements again as a basis, we may gain the first grasp of the fundamental nature of this condition.…

Bīja Niyama – The Law of Organic Life

Bīja literally means 'seed', in the sense of 'germ of life'. Thus this law called Bīja Niyāma, is essentially the law that governs the growth of organic life, from the smallest germ to the birth and growth of higher beings. When some small particle of matter, surrounded by a medium of water which is neither…

Physiology of the Pathway to Heaven

Here I want to show, higher meditation experiences usually will only occur, when at least part of some higher Dhamma knowledge has become intuitive. Below I give one example of a successful meditation; and in regards to it, I want to invite the reader to look if he can not find proves of an intuitive…

Learning and what Hinders it

Conceiving of a past and a future and a good and a bad, the mind seeks to make more often decisions that assure a greater 'good' in the vaster space of the future. Yet, as it may oftentimes be undecided as to the good and the bad of things, it seeks for outside sources of…

Physiology of a Celibate’s Demon

Now, our body needs nutriment. When we eat our food, that food gets digested in the stomach and then send further downward to the lower intestines. Along our spine, there are many nerve threads extending forward to the interior of the body, at some places only few, but at some places collecting into vast nerve-bundles.…

Acquiring Knowledge

Principally should the study of this system give a person the key to comprehend any teaching or statement or problem whatsoever, be it religious, mathematical, philosophical, biological or what ever else. Because, although there is a certain relativity to all truths spoken or written down, there is but one universal truth which may be approached…

Sampayutta Paccaya- Condition of Attraction

Whenever one phenomenon is, by virtue of its own qualities, pulling towards itself another phenomenon, it is called attraction. On all the conceivable scales of life, can there be found this condition of attraction. Matter from the tiniest of particles, to the matter of the whole universe is kept together through the condition of attraction.…

Kamma Niyāma – The Law of Kamma

Kamma Niyāma - The Law of Kamma Kamma Niyāma is the law of will or intention. Whenever the mind based on previous investigation and classification (of some sense-sphere phenomena) is thinking a thought, that thought will incline in one direction or another (usually dependent on how something was classified). When that direction of thought, becomes…

Kamma Paccaya, Vipāka Paccaya – Condition of Intentional Acts and their Results

Kamma as a Paṭṭhāna condition, refers to the condition wherein actions, but more specifically mental acts of will or intention are acting as a cause to produce some particular result (mental or material) in the future. Whereas the condition of Vipāka refers to the result of past actions and intentions, either in the form of…

Magga Paccaya – Condition of Paths

When conscious processing is pointing in a definite direction, in that the mind's choices become more consistent, consciousness gets established on a certain path. Yet, this Path-condition refers not only to paths brought about through choice, but to any path, brought about through choice or brought about through circumstances, spiritual or worldly, good or evil.…

Atthi Paccaya, Natthi Paccaya – Condition of Presence and Condition of Absence

Presence Condition (or condition of being) is referring to the existence of mental and material phenomena in the limited space of the "Now". While the condition of absence is referring to the opposite, that is, to the non-existence of mental and material phenomena in that limited space of the "Now". A question about being and…

Āsevana Paccaya – Condition of Repetition

The term Āsevana means both repetition and practice. Repetition is what establishes, makes strong and develops, both in regards to mind and matter. And, in its own boundaries, whatever it is that is repeated, becomes gradually easier with each repetition. Starting small, beginning again with a consideration of the four elements, we may acquire a…

Jhāna Paccaya – Condition of Meditation

A condition of meditation, is a condition wherein the mind seeks an escape from matter. Meditation is about finding the middle path. And this applies also to our familiar consideration of the four elements. Each of the four elements has its own distinctive qualities, some of which are seeked to be overcome through meditation, while…

Ahāra Paccaya – Condition of Fuel or Nutriment

Nutriment or Fuel condition refers to the way in which a particular physical thing or mental state or process is supported in its further growth. Most people will have had some experience of this condition when their mind was running wild due to having too much fuel from the senses. Traditionally there are 4 kinds…

Samanantara Paccaya – Condition of Sequences

Expressed in matters of the four elements, is the sequence condition, being a forward movement, primarily an aspect of the wind element. But, being a forward movement along definite lines, it may be thought of as the wind element guided by the earth element. Yet, thinking of all the elements in relation to this condition,…

Sahajāta Paccaya – Condition of Synchronicity

Whenever two or more phenomena become attuned to each other, they temporarily become more than singular, separate phenomena and may at that time function almost as one. .... When we relate synchronicity to the four elements, we can find only a rather simple dynamic: that of a passive element being receptive to the active nature…

Indriya Paccaya – Condition of Faculties

Faculties refer to the various capacities and powers a person, or more accurate, mental or material phenomena, may possess. Through past intentions to do, to see, to hear, feel and think (etc.), a being acquires certain material as well as mental faculties. Some of which are designed for the knowing and comprehension of the world…

Hetu Paccaya – Condition of Inner Establishments

Hetu Paccaya, often translated as root condition, is too describe the condition of an inner establishment of mental or material phenomena. There is a twofold classification of roots or inner establishments. The first one is along the line of capabilities. The second one is along the line of wholesome and unwholesome. The first root, is…

Vippayutta Paccaya – Condition of Repulsion

All forces have their counterparts. The reverse of the previous condition, this condition describes how and why mental and material phenomena repel other mental and material phenomena. Antagonisms, conflicts, wars, hatred and fear, and even diseases are examples of this condition of repulsion. But why are there conflicts, why are there wars? How can our…

Ārammaṇa Paccaya – Condition of Objects

Ārammana, usually translated as objects, may more accurately be thought of as supports of the mind (and the senses). Thus, this condition is describing any relation between mind or matter (as in the case of sense-base matter) and an supporting object. Any consideration wherein "my house", "my country", "my friends", "my relatives", "my property" etc.…

Citta Niyāma – The Law of Mentation

Citta Niyāma- The Law of Mentation Citta Niyāma is the law of mind. It is the law that governs the appearance and sequence in regard to mental phenomena. Even as the coarsest and deadest of matter, contains in it the potential for life, in that, by chance it might combine with a material sympathetic with…

Connected Understanding

Our Body transforms food into energy,... that energy travels through the body along certain channels (the bloodvessels for the most part). Apart from that, there are certain centres in the body where many nerve-ends come together. These nerve-ends are in direct contact with what is now called the sub-conscious mind...which is in turn in contact…

Conditions of Emotions using the Abhidhamma method

EmotionEmotions are the first stirrings of a latent mind seeking manifestation For doing work with/ for collaborating with some of the good forces of this universe,...big or small...we’d better try to learn about their nature and what they can do for us... Here only some example of how such understanding might look when seen from…

Bīja Niyāma (2)- The Law of Organic Life

Bīja Niyama is the law of organic life. Bīja literally means 'seed', in the sense of 'germ of life'. Thus, Bīja Niyama, is essentially the law that governs the growth of life...from plant growth to the birth and growth of higher beings. All the immutable facts of life, prove the existence of the law that…

Improving Nature to transcend Suffering-Cycles

Nature is cyclical and moody, …sometimes she gives, sometimes she takes Mans inner nature too is cyclical and moody Yet, to some degree man has proven a capacity to move beyond certain cycles.. towards a direction not indicated by nature Although, this has brought with it various definite complications, it has yet allowed man to…

Rebirth

The Inner Science

In the ancient world, the wise man was often called the knower of the gods. The gods signifying hidden entities which were believed to be the controlling agents of the world. Entities which were accessible only to those who were initiated into their mysteries. In modern times too, there are wise people investigating hidden entities,…

Teachings on Matter

The 4 Elements The four elements were known to most cultures of the past (although in some cultures there were 5). To get any handle on matter, making it an object of the conscious mind in order to diminish its hidden influence over that mind, one has to somewhat learn to classify it. Only in…

Notes on Mental Process

By determining and classifying the objects received from the 5 senses...man makes first steps in delineating his environment...through thinking he is mastering it and through registration he is taking it into his being. Technical teachings on the mental process according to Theravadin Buddhist Abhidhamma The Vithi A mental process (vithi) is divided into 16 mind…