Buddha Abhidhamma - Ultimate Science - BuddhaNet

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It should be emphasized here that whatever Buddha had
taught us out of His omniscience and own experience can be
tested and verified by any one with his own experience.
An Intellectual Treat
Abhidhamma deals with the realities that really exist in nature. It
correctly and microscopically analyses both mind and matter
which constitutes this complex machinery of man. It describes
the six sense-doors in man, the six senses coming from outside
and the arising of though processes when the senses come into
contact with the sense-doors.
Various mental states together with the causes of these mental
states are vividly enumerated. Wholesome and unwholesome
thoughts and their consequences are elaborated. Also the process
of life and death and that of rebirth in various planes under the
kammic force are clearly explained.
Råpa, which comprises matter and energy, is subdivided and
characterized to the ultimate states.
Both nàma (mind and its concomitants) and råpa (matter and
energy) are very short-lived. They arise and dissolve in the order
of a trillion (10 12) times per second. So the view that consciousness
flows like a stream as propounded by some modern
psychologists like William James becomes extremely clear to one
who understands Abhidhamma.
The law of Dependent Origination and the Law of Causal
Relations are treated systematically and thoroughly in Abhidhamma.
These laws find no parallel in any other philosophy.
Finally the four great Noble Truths, i.e. the Noble Truth of
Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Cause of Suffering, the Noble
Truth of the Cessation of Suffering and the Noble Truth of the