Higher Mind Art – Abhidhamma Explorations
Keys to the Abhidhamma System
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… Continue reading Connected Understanding
The Abhidhamma too may be useful when encountering physical problems. For example: Learning to recognise the four elements, may help a person to make a start in balancing out coarse imbalances of those elements inside the body. How this can be done will be elaborated on below. Understanding the natural sequence of the functions of… Continue reading Using Self-Knowledge to Cure Physical Problems
These are the mental activities of Life left to itself They constitute the first stirrings of a latent mind seeking manifestation. Their essential characteristic is that mental activity and thought are entirely governed by sensation and bodily processes. Yet, analogous to the generation of concepts through mental processing, during these processes, there happens a synthesis… Continue reading Dreams, Hallucinations and Thoughts below the Threshold of Consciousness
Overcoming Physical Suffering Through Meditation
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… Continue reading Teachings on Matter
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Temperature born (nature-born) food gets digested by means of the digestive fire ...and transformed into nutriment born particles. These will spread throughout the body and feed kamma born matter, such as the internal organs of the body. When there is no emotional disturbance (arrested bhavanga),...these organs will properly fulfill their function in harmony with the… Continue reading Rupa
All external events count as objects, first of the 5 sense‐bases, than of the mind, therefore without mastering the environment first (for a bhikkhu, the bhikkhus training and way of life, etc.), self‐knowledge can never become complete (yet, perception of the environment, depends in turn again on the perceiving faculty) ¹ Mind-element ² Mind-consciousness-element ...being… Continue reading Mind dependent on Body
Higher Mind Art - Abhidhamma Explorations 