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Ep. 97 – Perception & Mental Formations
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
What Are Mental Factors?
In the Buddhist psychology, the Abhidhamma, these factors are delineated into four different categories. These qualities of mind arise in different combinations in every moment of knowing and they are the building blocks of all our mental activity. So it's just making an interest in distinction here between conditioned arising's which are impermanent and unsatisfactory, and then all Dhammas, including Nipana, which are selfless. It becomes a very clear model for understanding the processes of our mind and also the karmic consequences of our mind's activity.
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