"...we must each take responsibility for our own desires, for the hindrances that obsess our minds, for the restlessness and distraction that plague attention, and for the consequences of our actions. It is not that sensual pleasures are evil; they simply do not have the capacity to satisfy us. Genuine peace occurs when we relinquish every conceivable attachment." --Shaila Catherine, Wisdom Wide and Deep, page 466
The tables listed here are adapted from Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana, by Shaila Catherine (Wisdom Publications, 2011). These tables illustrate the primary concepts of the Buddhist cognitive psychology known as Abhidhamma. Designed for easy printing, we hope these tables will support the practical application of Abhidhamma principals in meditation, and deepen your understanding of the function of perception in life.
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Table 4.1 | Five Jhana Factors |
Table 10.1 | Jhana Potential of Meditation Subjects |
Table 12.1 | Four Ultimate Realities |
Table 12.2 | Twenty-Eight Types of Material Phenomena (rupa) |
Table 12.3.1 | Schema of the Material Groups (kalapas) |
Table 12.3.2 | Schema of the Material Groups (kalapas) |
Table 12.4.1 | Sixty-Three Rupas of the Eye Door (cakkhu dvara) |
Table 12.4.2 | Sixty-Three Rupas of the Ear Door (sota dvara) |
Table 12.4.3 | Sixty-Three Rupas of the Nose Door (ghana dvara) |
Table 12.4.4 | Sixty-Three Rupas of the Tongue Door (jivha dvara) |
Table 12.5 | Fifty-Three Rupas of the Body Door (kaya dvara) |
Table 12.6 | Sixty-Three Rupas of the Mind Door (mano dvara) |
Table 12.7 | Parts of the Body Organized by Element |
Table 13.1 | Fifty-Two Mental Factors (cetasika) |
Table 13.2 | Mental Formations Associated with Jhana |
Table 13.3 | Seventeen Consciousnesses in Sense-Sphere Cognitive Process |
Table 13.4 | Variable Consciousnesses In Mind-Door Cognitive Process |
Table 13.5 | Mental Formations Present in Jhana |
Table 13.6 | First Jhana Cognitive Process with Associated Mental Formations |
Table 13.7 | Formations that Comprise the Impulsion Consciousness of Unwholesome Mental States |
Table 13.8 | Mental Formations in Wholesome Five-Door Cognitive Processes |
Table 13.9 | Mental Formations in Unwholesome Five-Door Cognitive Processes |
Table 13.10 | Mental Formations in Wholesome Mind-Door Cognitive Processes |
Table 16.1 | Characteristic, Function, Manifestation and Proximate Cause of Twenty-Eight Kinds of Materiality |
Table 16.2 | Characteristic, Function, Manifestation and Proximate Cause of the Consciousness Aggregate |
Table 16.3 | Characteristic, Function, Manifestation and Proximate Cause of the Feeling Aggregate |
Table 16.4 | Characteristic, Function, Manifestation and Proximate Cause of Mental Formations |
Table 16.5 | Characteristic, Function, Manifestation and Proximate Cause of Twelve Factors of Dependent Arising |
Table 17.1 | Forty Ways of Viewing Phenomena With the Three Characteristics |
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