Maṇḍalas – Their Nature and Development
This book deals with the question of what exactly constitutes a
‘cell’ metaphysically. The cell is viewed as a unit of consciousness
that interrelate with other cells to form maṇḍalas of expression. Each
such cell can be considered a form of ‘self’ that has a limited, though
valid, body of expression. It is born, sustains a form of activity, and
consequently dies when it outlives its usefulness. This mode of analysis
is extended to include the myriad forms manifest in the world of
phenomena known as saṃsāra including the existence and functioning of
chakras.
A Treatise on Mind Outline
- Volume 1 The “Self” or “Non-self” in Buddhism
- Volume 2 Considerations of Mind—A Buddhist Enquiry
- Volume 3 The Buddha-Womb and the Way to Liberation
- Volume 4 Maṇḍalas: Their Nature and Development
- Volume 5 An Esoteric Exposition of the Bardo Thödol
- Volume 6 Meditation and the Initiation Process
- Volume 7 The Constitution of Shambhala
Whilst the numbers of Buddhists are growing in the world, the
techniques and discourses of Buddhism have not changed to meet the
radically different conditions of the contemporary world. Thus Buddhism
needs a true restorative flowering to rival that of the renaissance of
debate and innovative thinking of the early post-Nāgārjunian era. In
order to achieve this it must synthesise the present wealth of
scientific knowledge, alongside the best of the Western world’s
philosophical output – this is the primary task of this seven volume
treatise.
The treatise investigates Buddhist ideas concerning what mind is and
how it relates to a concept of a ‘self’. It is principally a study of
the complex interrelationship between mind and phenomena, from the gross
to the subtle—the physical, psychic, supersensory and supernal. This
entails an explanation of how mind incorporates all phenomena in its
modus operandi, and how eventually that mind is liberated from it,
thereby becoming awakened. Thus the treatise explores the manner in
which the corporeally orientated, concretised, intellectual mind
eventually becomes transformed into the Clear Light of the abstracted
Mind; a Buddha-Mind.
