Higher Mind Art – Abhidhamma Explorations
Keys to the Abhidhamma System
Nowadays it is perhaps more important than ever, that we learn to better look after ourselves and gain greater control over the workings of our body. Thus increasing our potential for warding off disease and for developing greater resilience. For accomplishing that more effectively, I want to offer this small pictorial description of the basics… Continue reading Healthy Mindfulness
Should a person desire to practice Four Elements meditation as a subject for establishing mindfulness, he should frequently recite to himself the names of the primary elements and further on, extend the recitation to include the main characteristics of the elements. Thus he might first recite earth, water, fire, wind,… earth, water, fire, wind… earth,… Continue reading Meditation on The Four Elements
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
You find yourself being dissatisfied with your life…not doing what you would like to do…doing what you don't really like to do… Getting a handle on the situation you might want to analyse it during a more clear moment of your day, in order that you might find a solution to it (as for most… Continue reading Dissatisfaction
Once a person has acquired an understanding of natural laws and the natural sequence of those laws, he will have to order each item of importance under the functionings of those laws. That is, how anything that he would like to understand properly, is working out or is functioning under the governance of each of… Continue reading Application of the Knowledge of the 5 Niyamas
Meditation as a Path out of Suffering Note: This video builds up on the information of the main blog Keys to the Abhidhamma system the-path-out-of-suffering.movDownload
Dependent Origination as a Formula to Comprehend Life Unfathomable like the deep dark depth of the earth, is the deep dark depth of ignorance, out of which in random fashion sprout formation after formation. Those are the kammical seeds of an unthinkable past, which like little saplings whose planting has been long forgotten pierce through… Continue reading Dependent Origination
Overcoming Physical Suffering Through Meditation
Good begets good, bad begets bad. Most people, at the very least have heard such saying. Yet, although there may be situations in life where it is quite obvious what is good and what is bad, many times in life we may come across situations in which it is difficult to decide which road or… Continue reading The Problem of Good and Evil
Does it sometimes happen to you, that you have a great idea or a good thought in general, or perhaps even an answer to a question that was for long in your mind, but it sort of evaporates before it is really finished...? Right Thinking is one of the factors of the Buddhist noble eightfold… Continue reading Short Thoughts and Unclear Thinking
Boredom seems to be one issue of a great many people…so here some analysis as to what boredom is made up of and how to counterbalance it. Mental Factors:Desire for change Aversion to what is present Mental Life faculty being weakRestlessness Feeling: neutral to slightly unpleasant Perception: dull awareness of lackThought directed at change of… Continue reading A Small Analysis of Boredom
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Although systems like the Abhidhamma might have had infinitely more relevance...were infinitely more valuable and important before the advent of the commonality of books...still even today many people find them valuable for their understanding of life and mind...and in many ways often they are the source and inspiration of many of the modern books... In… Continue reading Understanding Patthāna
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