Three of us from our meditation group started meeting monthly to work through the Abhidharma texts together but we've hit a wall around the consciousness chapters - one person insists on strict traditional interpretation, another wants to integrate neuroscience, and I'm somewhere in between. Our discussions have become tense and I'm worried we're embodying the very mental formations we're studying.
More people experience this than they realize.
Your intellectual approaches to liberation teachings are creating the exact kinds of attachment and conflict the texts warn against.
“Where Are You with Buddhist psychology in depth — Abhidharma?”
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