A Manual of Abhidhamma

by Nārada Thera | 80,494 words | ISBN-13: 9789380336510

In the Abhidhammattha Sangaha there is a brief exposition of the Law of Dependent Origination, followed by a descriptive account of the Causal Relations that finds no parallel in any other philosophy. Edited in the original Pali Text with English Translation and Explanatory Notes by Narada Maha Thera....

Thought-Processes

When, for instance, a visible object enters the mind through the eye-door, a thought-process runs as follows -

Pañcadvāra citta vīthi - Ati Mahanta

  • 1 atīta bhavanga
  • 2 bhavanga calana
  • 3 bhavañgupaccheda
  • 4 pañcadvārāvajjana
  • 5 cakkhu viññāna
  • 6 sampaticchana
  • 7 santīrana
  • 8 votthapana
  • 9 - 15 javana
  • 16 - 17 tadārammana

Immediately after this five sense-door thought-process, the stream of consciousness subsides into bhavanga. Then there arises a mind-door thought-process perceiving the aforesaid visible object mentally as follows -

Manodvārika Vīthi

  • 1 manodvārāvajjana
  • 2 - 8 javana
  • 9 - 10 tadārammana

Again the stream of consciousness subsides into bhavanga, and two more similar thought-processes arise before the object is actually known.

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