Higher Mind Art – Abhidhamma Explorations
Keys to the Abhidhamma System
As choices become more consistent and as the mind grows in its capacities of making intelligent kammical calculations that are in alignment with those choices, individuality reaches its peak. Ultimately the mind will then seek to know, what the worthiest of goals to aspire to is. Hence it sets out to study life with an… Continue reading Dhamma Niyāma – The Law of Holiness
A combination is a coming together of various elements, material or immaterial, to form a new whole. In fact, the whole universe is but a combination of elements. But to start small, comprehending this condition in childlike simplicity, we seek to understand it first in matters of the four elements. Thus we may observe, how… Continue reading Anantara Paccaya – Condition of Combinations
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… Continue reading Continuity
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… Continue reading Bīja Niyama – The Law of Organic Life
Utu Niyama - The Law of Physical Nature The Buddha declared, that an absolute beginning of things can not be found. Yet in regard to the phenomenal world, whether on a grand scale or in the very tiny things, all things are understood to possess these two sides of a spectrum, one being the beginning… Continue reading Utu Niyāma – The Law of Physical Nature
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… Continue reading Bīja Niyāma (2)- The Law of Organic Life
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,… Continue reading The Inner Science
The bhavanga is one key concept of Buddhist thought. Usually translated as life-continuum, it is more literally ‘that wherein one’s life is rooted’. It is in fact referring to the same phenomenon that in modern times is called the subconscious mind. In other places I sometimes used the word "life-stuff" (especially in relation to the… Continue reading Bhavanga to Samadhi
Most people never have enough time, rarely have a good time and in general time seems be something that works usually against them. A person working on a spiritual path can not get around the problem of time…acquiring more control over ones life means also acquiring more control over time… For getting a handle on… Continue reading Time
Thoughts are short and unconnected...the mind taking the objects from the 5 senses...and considers them according to their apparent characteristics... If things, out of faith or due to prior seeing are contemplated as impermanent, suffering and non‐self...the mind can be made to turn away from that world Energy body (Uggahanimitta‐stage, Chi, Life‐energy, Astral‐body, etc.)....4 elements… Continue reading Stages of Meditative Development in regards to Body and Mind
Higher Mind Art - Abhidhamma Explorations 