| Foreword |
ix |
| Acknowledgments |
xv |
| Introduction |
1 |
| Abhidharma: Its Scope and Meaning |
9 |
| The Meaning of the Term Abhidharma |
9 |
| The Meaning of the Term Buddha |
13 |
| The Operational System "Mind" |
15 |
| The Importance of a Healthy Attitude |
15 |
| A Structural Model of "Mind" |
23 |
| "Mind" as a Self-Structuring Process |
34 |
| The Contextualized System "Mind" |
41 |
| Sociocultural Operators |
41 |
| Pollutants and Quasi Pollutants |
52 |
| Pollutants |
52 |
| The Quasi Pollutants |
58 |
| Summary |
61 |
| Concentration, Contemplation, Meditation: Preliminaries on the way of Growing up |
62 |
| Objectivistic-Reductionistic Concentration |
66 |
| Mentalistic-Creative Contemplation |
81 |
| Holistic Imparting of Meaning |
89 |
| The Way: The Earlier View I |
95 |
| Introductory Remarks |
95 |
| The Theravada Conception of the Way |
97 |
| The Way: The Earlier View II |
106 |
| The Sravaka and Pratyekabuddha Ways |
106 |
| The Sravaka Conception of the Way |
106 |
| The Pratyekabuddha Conception of the Way |
122 |
| The Way: The Later View I |
126 |
| The Bodhisattva Way I: Prelude |
126 |
| The Meaning of the Terms Bodhisattva and Bodhicitta |
126 |
| Rigs/khams |
128 |
| De-bzhin/bde-bar gshegs-pa'i snying-po |
132 |
| The Activation of Bodhicitta |
136 |
| Ethics and Sociocultural Levels |
145 |
| The Way: The Later View II |
151 |
| The Bodhisattva Way II: The Exact Itinerary |
151 |
| The Build-up Phase |
151 |
| The Probability of a Breakthrough |
161 |
| The Way of Seeing |
165 |
| The Way of Cultivating What Has Been Seen |
172 |
| The Way of No More Learning |
174 |
| rDzogs-chen: Supercompleteness I |
184 |
| Introductory Remarks |
184 |
| The rDzogs-chen Program |
188 |
| rDzogs-chen: Supercompleteness II |
195 |
| The Homologous Evolution of Man and God/Teacher |
195 |
| The Evolution of the God/Teacher Idea |
195 |
| The Evolution of Man as the Holomovement's Errancy Mode |
199 |
| rDzogs-chen: Supercompleteness III |
206 |
| Ontological Difference and Coordinated Hierarchy |
206 |
| The Ontological Difference |
206 |
| Coordinated Hierarchy |
215 |
| rDzogs-chen: Supercompleteness IV |
223 |
| The Role of Fluctuations in an Individual's Psychic Evolution |
223 |
| The Homology of Mentation Pollutants and Originary-Awareness Modes |
223 |
| The Dynamics of Self-Organization: Obscuration and Clearing |
235 |
| Epilogue |
245 |
| Notes |
249 |
| References |
284 |
| Indexes |
291 |
| Technical Terms |
291 |
| Subjects |
300 |
