This talk explores the difference between Visualisation and Imagination, and how both relate to the spiritual path.

In this short Dhamma talk, I explain how to balance the four elements both in meditation and in daily life. This is a follow up talk to the previous talk on the Four Elements.

Throughout the ancient world the concept of the four elements has been used, not only to better understand and classify matter, but indeed for understanding the wholeness of an individual's experience.

This Dhamma talk gives a comprehensive overview over what these four elements are and how they may be used for meditation and for gaining deeper insights into the nature of our own experience. On my website (https://highermindart.info) there can be found a corresponding booklet, as well as various articles on the subject.

A talk on Repetition as a universal fact of existence. Part of my Patthana series, in this talk I explore the Patthana condition of Repetition, Asevana Paccaya. As usual I try to explore this Patthana condition in relation to Matter (Rupa), Mind (Citta), Consciousness (Viññana), and Nibbana.

For more teachings on Patthana, Buddhist Philosophy in general, or meditation, I suggest having a look onto my website: www.highermindart.info. You can also download my book "Paramattha" for free (https://highermindart.info/books), where I explore in depth all major aspects of Buddhist Philosophy.

This Dhamma talk explores how Kamma (/ Karma) operates. How our intentions, habits, and attachments will condition our future and what we become.

If you have an interest in understanding the law of Karma (Pali - Kamma) in greater depth, I have written various articles about it, which you can find under: https://highermindart.info/category/kamma. However the perhaps most foolproof and step-by-step manner to exploring the workings of Kamma may be found in my book

"Paramattha - A guidebook for consciousness and a modern exploration of ancient Buddhist Abhidhamma teachings" (which can be downloaded for free using the following link: https://highermindart.info/sdm_downloads/paramattha-abhidhamma-books-2 or by going the the books section on my website: https://highermindart.info)

This talk explores the 22 Indriyas of Buddhist Abhidhamma philosophy. These 22 Indriyas (faculties / powers) are important mental and physical phenomena that influence the functioning of mind and body.

Often they are categorized into different types, such as physical faculties, mental faculties, and supramundane faculties. The Indriyas play a crucial role in the Abhidhamma analysis of the human experience and the process of enlightenment.

I have considered them in this talk in a slightly untraditional manner. For a better understanding of my rather untraditional way of understanding the Patthana conditions, I suggest to have a look at my website (https:// highermindart.info), or to read my book "Paramattha" which can be downloaded for free on the same website.

'The Patthana', traditionally regarded as the quintessence of the Buddha's wisdom and as the surest proof of his omniscience; is a system which, in mathematical order, seeks to expand the comprehension of matter, mind, consciousness, and Nibbana (as delineated in the previous talk); to cover the entirety of existence.

In total there are 24 Patthana 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 Patthana may equally be viewed as the grammar of insight. Thus, the Patthana 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, on my YouTube channel (@bhikkhu-dhammananda) you can find already a number of talks exploring several of the Patthana conditions in greater depth.

In this small talk, I try to outline the basics of Buddhist philosophy (Abhidhamma). It introduces and explains the 4 Paramattha. The basic framework I give in here may be regarded as the vocabulary of insight. Beware that my explanations are not always one-on-one the traditional ones. For deeper and more broad explanations on the Buddhist Abhidhamma system, you can find many resources on my website (https://highermindart.info).