Buddhism in a Nutshell
The Mind-Body Concept

  1. The Ultimate Realities
    • Nibbana (Unconditioned)
    • Consciousness (Conditioned - 89 types)
    • Mental Concomitants/Formations (Conditioned - 52 types)
    • Matter (Conditioned - 4 elements)
      • Earth - quality of hardness (pathavi)
      • Water - quality of liquidity or wetness(apo)
      • Wind - quality of motion (vayo)
      • Fire - quality of heat (tejo)

  2. The Five Aggregates (Khandha)
    • Materiality (Rupa)
    • Feelings (Vedana)
    • Perceptions (Sanna)
    • Mental Formations/Volitions (Sankhara)
    • Consciousness (Vinnana)

  3. Dependent-Origination (Paticcasamuppada))
    • Ignorance (avijja)
    • Kamma formation
    • Consciousness
    • Psycho-physical existence
    • Six sense organs
    • Sense impressions
    • Feelings
    • Craving
    • Clinging
    • Becoming
    • Birth
    • Old age, sickness, death

          More on Dependant Origination

  4. Bhavanga Consciousness

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