The Original Buddhist Psychology · What the Abhidharma Tells Us About How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life by Jacobs, Beth -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Titlepage Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Preface Prologue: Why The Buddhists Got it Right Chapter 1: Entering the Abhidharma

First Exposure The Abhidharma’s Origins Wading In Down to the Roots Early Context of the Abhidharma Where to Enter Why Enter?

Chapter 2: Construction and Khandhas

Chapter 3: Perceptual Processes

The Amazing Discovery The Tiny Unit of Perception The Seventeen Steps of a Full Perceptual Process Partial Perceptual Processes The Midpoint of the Process: Gateway to Karma Neuropsychological Parallels The Seventeen Steps, Neuropsychology, and Meaning

Chapter 4: Six X Six

Weaving Dimensions A Six X Six Structure The Six Sixes as a Basic Structure of Reality

Chapter 5: Citta

What Is Citta? Where Citta Fits in the Scheme of Ultimate Reality The Power of Examining Citta Categorizations of Citta First Category: Planes of Existence Karmic and Path Implications Wholesome and Unwholesome Other Distinctions in Types of Cittas (More) Implications of Citta

Chapter 6: Cetasika

Another Accompanying Dimension Citta and Cetasika Are a Unit Categories of Cetasikas—The Universal Group The Occasional Group The Unwholesome Group The Beautiful Group Mental Factors as Another Dimension

Chapter 7: Cittas X Cetasikas: Ways of the Abhidharma Matrix

How the Cittas and Cetasikas Fit Together The Method of Association The Combination Method Experience within This Vast Matrix

Chapter 8: Emotion in the Abhidharma

Where is the Emotion Chapter? A More-Binary-Than-Qualitative View of Emotion The Dynamics of Emotion in the Abhidharma The Gateway to Karma, and to Emotion The Abhidharma’s Insights on the Dynamics of Emotions

Chapter 9: The Abhidharma Diagnostic System

Black and White Values Aids to Enlightenment The Ways Things Go Wrong Diagnostic Usefulness

Chapter 10: The Abhidharma Cosmology

Changing the Scale of View Looking at Multiple Lifetimes from within One Lifetime The Realms of Existence A Much Bigger Sense of Time Taking in the Buddhist Cosmology

Chapter 11: A View of Matter

Beyond a Dualism of Mind and Matter The Four Elements The Other Fourteen of the Eighteen Inherent Types of Matter The Ten Kinds of Non-Concretely Produced Matter The Classifications of Matter The Causes of Matter Going Past Matter

Chapter 12: Karma

Karma Washes Through the Systems of the Abhidharma Types of Karma Karma and Rebirth Karma in the Overall Picture

Chapter 13: Causality and the Twenty-Four Conditions

A Different Way to Look at Causation Two Views of Causality—The Method of Dependent Arising The Method of Conditional Relations The Twenty-Four Conditions Groupings of the Twenty-Four Conditions Where the Twenty-Four Conditions Land

Chapter 14: The Abhidharma Prescription

Ways to Manage All These Dynamics Concentration Training with Different Temperaments Insight Training, or Purification Processes Two Methods, One Goal

Chapter 15: A Timeless Psychology

A Timeless Psychology A Microscopic Psychology A Dynamic Psychology A Useful Psychology

Appendix: The Types of Cittas References Notes Index About the Author