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Mind Science and compass for Everyday Life: Navigating Mind, Matter, and Liberation Vol-5(How Mind Work)

Synopsis: Every sight, sound, and thought is part of a quick, natural chain of mental events. This book explains how the Abhidhamma describes these processes — the “five-door” and “mind-door” ways the mind receives information. You’ll learn about Bhavaṅga (life-continuum) and Javana (impulsive moments), and how perception happens moment by moment. With friendly analogies — like watching frames in a movie — this book shows how our mind reacts and how mindfulness can bring calm control. Learning Outcome: You will develop a clearer awareness of how experiences arise and vanish. This understanding helps reduce automatic reactions and grow patience, presence, and insight. Abstract This volume presents the dynamic Abhidhamma model of cognition, detailing how consciousness arises in distinct sequences when one sees, hears, smells, tastes, touches, or thinks. It introduces key processes such as Bhavaṅga (life-continuum), Javana (impulsion), and Vīthi (cognitive series), illustrating how these mental events occur with great rapidity. By simplifying the classical description of the five-door and mind-door processes, the book enables readers to comprehend how perception unfolds moment by mome

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