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Intro
- How he define minds: Unwholesome state of mind, wholesome state of mind
- Buddha: Born in India, 16th century BC
- Dhamma teachings = how suffering arises and how suffering could be stopped.
- Mental defilements (褻瀆) -> Cling/Attach to thing -> Suffering
- Reflective writing:
- Better past experience. Only brief description of events, more about explanation,
analyze… focus on IMPROVEMENT
- incident in the past (reaction without knowing buddist concept) -> create problem ->
relate concept to incident -> reanalyze the situation -> react and response if happen
again -> improve future
- 5-10m quiz only
- roots of unwholesome behavior = mental factors within the mind that diversifies the mind,
affect behavior (mind->behavior)
- complete destruction/extinction/extinguishment of fires (burn our mind) = set free from
that 3 -> happy, peaceful
- non-delusion: understand our own life (what Buddha teaches)
MIND is Primary
- Mind control Matter (develop mind -> control body)
- Because of body one is disturbed. Develop mind to Meditative states -> Control body ->
Things(matter) couldn’t affect the mind
- Mind-objects = mental images, cognitive process that organize external objects (eg. eyes
see sth -> grab an image -> reflect on that)
- Mind-made: Mind conceptualize the thing you perceive (can recognize what you see).
Mental images, concepts, ideas all made by mind
Citta = Mind/Consciousness
- Cannot talk about mind without an object (expect, depends on an object)
- Object = external object / internal mental image
- Mental image deposited in brain and appear in memories/dream
- Material phenomena = external object / internal senses (basic sensitivity like smell, taste…)
- Mental factors = processes behind mind = hatred, greed, delusion, lust… 52
- Mind: 89/121 (another counting; added multiplication to meditative states)
- Buddha’s teachings collected in 3 baskets (philosophic books)
- Abhidhamma: mental factors, cittas
- Vinaya: monastic procedures and discipline
- Sutta: philosophical analysis and discussions
Eye-door process
- Cognitize sth through eye (know sth after seeing)
- Every mind-moment consists of many sub-moments
- Sub-moments for eye-door process (***)
- Not cognitizing: Stream of Bhavanga (mind in sleeping state)
- Break once sth comes to our eyes
- Five-door adverting: object comes to senses/perception -> direct to the proper door (eye,
ear, nose, tongue, mind)
- Eye-consciousness: seeing from the eye
- Javana x7: MIND (same mind, wholesome/unwholesome, regrading to that object)
Dhamma = Dharma
= Four Noble Truths: Suffering (Dukkha), Arising of Suffering (causes), Cessation of
Suffering, Way leading to cessation of Suffering
= Buddha’s teaching
Right view
= Learn the Dhamma
= Learn nature of things (how things works)
- Wrong view (learn sth wrong) -> Wrong behavior -> Suffering
- Very difficult to get rid of wrong view (clinging on ‘own’ view, eg belief)
Urgency
- Reflect on shortness of life
Cessation of suffering
- Discover your own path
- Seeing = understanding
- Dependently arisen (arise depending on many other conditions) = subject to change =
impermanent
- Understand BOTH arising and ceasing (understand how a thing arises and ceases)