In the present context, which is concerned with the notion of the self in Buddhism, the two psycho- physical descriptions, as synthetic explanations showing the co-relative interdependence of mental and physical factors, are the most useful. [...] In the next chapter, where the aim will be to trace the etiology of craving within the personality, we can concentrate on the process of consciousness (vinuana) in the patiecasamuppada, and on the mental factors of oitta and mano. [...] He is supported by K. N. Jayatilleke, who argues that the formula gives "a causal account of the factors operating in maintaining the process of the individual and thereby of suffering" as well as being employed "to substitute an empirical causal explanation of the (relative) origin and development of the individual in place of an explanation in terms of metaphysical first causes or final causes." [...] Although the Series of Dependencies like the Five Grasping Groups shows how the mind and physiological functions of the body co-exist in one framework, it can be argued that, unlike the Five Grasping Groups, the central emphasis of the Series of Dependencies is found in its sophisticated theory of consciousness. [...] This formula also yields a theory of consciousness, a theory declared to be the heart of the Series of Dependencies and the key to the problem of pain.
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- PREFACE 10
- FOREWARD 12
- ABBREVIATIONS 14
- INTRODUCTION 16
- Chapter 1: CRAVING AND PAINFULNESS 20
- 1. Dukkha 21
- 2. Personality and Painfulness 25
- 3. The Pañcupādānakkhandhā (The Five Grasping Groups) 26
- 4. The Paticcasamuppāda (Series of Dependencies) 30
- 5. The Significance of the Concept of Consciousness in the Paticcasamuppāda 33
- Chapter 2: MIND AND CRAVING 37
- 1. Viññāna as "Consciousness" 37
- 2. Craving, Consciousness, and Rebirth 44
- 3. The Link of Upādāna 47
- 4. Consciousness, Craving, and Meditation 49
- 5. Mano (Mana) 52
- 6. Mano and Craving 56
- 7. Citta 59
- 8. The Untrained Citta and Craving 60
- 9. The Trained Citta 63
- 10. The Unconscious and Tanhā 67
- 11. Previous Scholarship 68
- 12. Sankhāra 70
- 13. Sankhāra as Volition 72
- 14. Abhisankhāra and the Case of A.1.111 74
- 15. Sankhāra Understood as Conscious and Unconscious Volition 76
- 16. Factors of the Unconscious: Dormant Tendencies, Dispositional Roots and Cankers 80
- 17. The Unwholesome Roots 83
- 18. The Cankers 85
- Chapter 3: CRAVING AND EMANCIPATION 89
- 1. The Buddhist Concept of Will 90
- 2. The Affirmative Character of Buddhist Conative Psychology 93
- 3. Changing the Current of Desire: Tanhā as "Wholesome" (kusala) Craving 94
- 4. The Dynamics of Willing (Chanda) 97
- 5. Development of the Senses (Indriyāni) 100
- 6. Craving and Meditation 104
- 7. Techniques of Meditation 107
- 8. Wisdom (Paññā) and Nirvāna 118
- Chapter 4: CONCLUSION 123
- NOTES 126
- INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS 148
- A 148
- B 148
- C 148
- D 148
- E 148
- F 148
- I 149
- J 149
- K 149
- L 149
- M 149
- N 149
- O 149
- P 149
- R 149
- S 150
- T 150
- U 150
- V 150
- W 150
