The mind is hard to check, swift, flits wherever it listeth, the control of which is good; a controlled mind is conducive to happiness. The mind is very hard to perceive, extremely subtle, flits wherever it listeth; let the wise person guard it; a guarded mind is conducive to happiness.
The Dhammapada
Table of Content
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1 Health and the Wheel of Life
The Meaning of Life
The Wheel of Life
Health in Therav? da Buddhism
2 Illness, Disease and the Process of Life
Life in the Ultimate Level
The Ultimate Understanding of Health
The Ultimate Understanding of Disease
Mental Defilements as the Source of Disease
The Dissolving Character of the Mind
The Way of Disease
3 The Mind, Mental Defilements, and the Rise of Disease
The Mind, Every Arising Mind, Mind-moment
Mental Defilements
A Group of Unwholesome Minds Rooted in Greed
A Group of Unwholesome Minds Rooted in Aversion
A Group of Unwholesome Minds Rooted in Delusion
The Rise of Disease
4 Wholesome Mental Concomitants, Health, and the Round of Birth
Various Aspects of the Mind
Wholesome Mental Concomitants
The Process of Health
Health and the Round of Birth
5 The Mind’s Will, Mindfulness, and the Way to Health
The Mind’s Paradoxical Nature
The Mind’s Will
Mindfulness and Health
The Way to Health
Appendix A: Mental Concomitants
Appendix B: The Fourfold Foundation of Mindfulness
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