Looking for the Meaning

Very often we find different teachings on similar subjects or identical phenomena and we do not know, which one to believe. In the psychology of traditional Buddhism for example there is a teaching that the mind arises as a process of 17 mind moments, each possessing an arising, standing and perishing phase, happening so fast…

Philosophical Notes on Vithi

The Vithi model shows the mind as a sequence and depicts the order by which mental phenomena occur. Apart from that, it indicates, that certain aspects of cognition/ of processing Information have perhaps more significance than others...As man learns to master the world in which he finds himself, initially he will be so to say…

The Vithi in Meditation

Some insight into the process and the terms If an disturbing object enters the domain of the 5 senses...the meditator might have to advert his mind towards it...investigating it, he might find a suitable name for it (determining/classifying it)...having found a suitable name, he will have the possibility of thinking rightly (or wrongly) about it...the…

Ever Mind – Abhidhamma Considerations regarding the Mind

Bhavanga (that wherein one's existence is rooted), includes, so we believe, also blind (unconscious) emotions...wandering thoughts and dreams. All those we take to be the vibrating bhavanga ...which have to be arrested in order that any active mental process can happen. (the model might not contain anything exactly corresponding to the modern idea of an…

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…