Health and Disease in Buddhist Minds.

Health and Disease in Buddhist Minds.

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 Dhammapa...

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Main Author: Mahanarongchai, Sumalee
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Nordhausen : Traugott Bautz, 2015.
Series:Libri nigri.
Subjects:
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation.
Medicine, Popular.
Buddhism.
PHILOSOPHY > Essays.
PHILOSOPHY > Reference.
Buddhism
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation
Medicine, Popular
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Titelei; Impressum; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Health and the Wheel of Life; The Meaning of Life; The Wheel of Life; Health in Theravāda 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 AversionA 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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