What are best existing secular explanations of Buddhist three characteristics / which assumptions your brain learns are untrue when you do insight meditation? Writing something and want to see what's already been done. @Meaningness @misen__ @Failed_Buddhist @joogipupu @_awbery_
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Abhidharma is concerned with foundational philosophical questions of metaphysics, cosmology, ethics, and psychology. It is not *the* Buddhist theory of those things. It is *a* Buddhist theory. It comes from, roughly speaking, the second major period of scriptural innovation. 2/
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The first period generated the Hinayana sutras; Abhidharma was second; Mahayana was third; Tantra fourth. (Simplifying history a bit.) Each of these had quite different, sharply contradicting accounts of mind, enlightenment, metaphysics, etc. 3/
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