Free Will and Destiny in Buddhism
When people ask about free will and destiny, they often want a simple answer: Do we really have free will, or is everything already determined? In Buddhism, the answer is…
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25/09/2025
Newest Updates to This Abhidhamma Project
I’m excited to share some important updates about my book Paramattha and my ongoing efforts to make the Dhamma more accessible and engaging for all. Paramattha Now Available in Paperback Paramattha is now…
27/02/2025
Basics of Buddhist Philosophy (Abhidhamma) – 2 Talks
These are two short talks on the basics of Abhidhamma. I hope you find them insightful and helpful in understanding these fundamental concepts. The first talk, “The Vocabulary of Insight,”…
13/08/2024
The Four Elements of Wisdom – Dhamma Talk MP3
The wisdom of the elements And their almost sacred dance Their nature, danger, usefulness, The need for them for truthfulness This all here is seeked to get explored And to…
09/07/2024
An Exploration of Kamma, Rebirth, and the Law of Dhamma
Throughout the ages, periodically wise men arose in the world with the mission to enlighten unenlightened man. These were the great initiators who brought the light whenever the world was…
07/03/2024
The Body as an Object for Meditation
If you but seek'st enlightenment;first it's opposite must comprehend.But what is the opposite of spirit?Tis matter whose coarseness is most vivid. But what is matter?, we might ask.Everything, that you…
07/03/2024
The Four Elements as Sense-objects
The Four Elements as Sense-objects Usually, these four elements first will have to be apprehended through any one of the 5 senses. And through each sense, they are apprehended somewhat…
06/03/2024
Some thoughts about non-self
The topic of non-self is a problematic topic in Buddhism. Often even Buddhist monks will feel a little bit embarrassed when being asked about it. Many a somewhat thinking person…
27/08/2023
Purejāta-Pacchājāta Paccaya – Condition of Latency and Manifestation
The condition wherein things, material or immaterial, exist rather as a potential, without actually being manifest, is what is called a condition of latency. It is the condition of mental…
23/01/2023
Pañca Niyama – Laws of Existence
Five laws that move the way of thingsFive laws from which all wisdom springsFive laws, the quintessence of allFive laws to Cosmic view us callThe law of matter is the…
21/01/2023
Keys to the Abhidhamma System
This blog is an outline of the Buddhist Abhidhamma. Its aim is to show a method of contemplation, giving those who are inclined to meditate on the Abhidhamma, subjects or headings for meditation, all of which point in a definite direction, one subject providing a basis for the next.
19/01/2023
The Buddhist Abhidhamma – The Science of the inner Life
In the ancient world, the wise man was often called the knower of the gods. The gods signifying hidden entities which were believed to be the controlling agents of the…
13/01/2023
Acquiring Knowledge
Now let’s talk about practical matters. The Abhidhamma system may indeed be used for an almost infinite amount of things. Principally should the study of this system give a person…
03/01/2023
Samanantara Paccaya – Condition of Sequences
A sequence is a chain of things or events, following one after another. Thus, the crux of this condition is to describe, that there is a certain progression as to…
14/10/2022
Paramattha- On Ultimate Truth
Concepts and Ultimate truth Phenomena are ever only phenomena, words and concepts are ever only words and concepts. But if we possess a word or concept, which has for us…
14/10/2022
♥️ / Meditation
Bhavanga to Samadhi
The practice of meditation is very central to Buddhism. However without an understanding of the mind, there are many pitfalls. The idea of Bhavanga, an idea central to the Abhidhamma,…
14/10/2022
Application of the Knowledge of the 5 Niyamas
Once a person has acquired an understanding of the Niyāma, he may order each item of importance under the functionings of those natural laws. That is, how anything that he…
14/10/2022
Using Self-Knowledge to Cure Physical Problems
The Abhidhamma too may be useful when encountering physical problems. For example: Learning to recognise the four elements, may help a person to make a start in balancing out coarse…
14/10/2022
Learning and what Hinders it
Conceiving of a past and a future and a good and a bad, the mind seeks to make more often decisions that assure a greater 'good' in the vaster space…
13/10/2022
Physiology of a Celibate’s Demon
Now, our body needs nutriment. When we eat our food, that food gets digested in the stomach and then send further downward to the lower intestines. Along our spine, there…
13/10/2022
Notes on Iddhi Padas (Roads to Success)
If while observing yourself and remembering your dhamma practice, you of and on formulate a desire, such as 'may I realize, what I have not yet realized', or more concretely…
17/09/2022
Mind dependent on Body
All external events count as objects, first of the 5 sense‐bases, than of the mind, therefore without mastering the environment first (for a bhikkhu, the bhikkhus training and way of…
22/07/2022
Utu Niyāma – The Law of Physical Nature
The Buddha declared, that an absolute beginning of things can not be found,…yet in regard to the phenomenal world, whether on a grand scale or in the very tiny things,…
13/07/2022
Conditions of Emotions using the Abhidhamma method
Emotion Emotions are the first stirrings of a latent mind seeking manifestation For doing work with/ for collaborating with some of the good forces of this universe,…big or small…we’d better…
13/07/2022