Why Buddhists Call This the Summit of Wisdom (Basics of Abhidhamma Part 2)

What is the Paṭṭhāna? In Abhidhamma, it is known as the summit of the Buddha’s wisdom—a vast and precise system that explains how mind and matter arise, interact, and condition one another.
In this Dhamma talk, Bhikkhu Dhammānanda explores the Paṭṭhāna, revealing how its principles lead toward a deep understanding of consciousness and Nibbāna.

In total there are 24 Paṭṭhāna conditions. And these may perhaps best be thought of as patterns in the phenomenal world (that is, patterns in how material and mental things occur). But, as phenomenal realities are so to say the objects a meditator seeks to gain insight in, the Paṭṭhāna may equally be viewed as the grammar of insight. Thus, the Paṭṭhāna is a system which is seeking to reduce the infinite variety of phenomena, or the infinite amount of life experiences, to a finite amount of universal realities which follow 24 possible modes or ways of relating to each other.

For a proper comprehension of the subject, I recommend reading my book Paramattha (free to download under https://highermindart.info/books). Apart from that, under: https://highermindart.info/dhamma-talks/ can be found a number of talks exploring several of the Paṭṭhāna conditions in greater depth.

I suggest turning on subtitles (cc) to be able to better follow along.

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