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The Mind Deck

52 cards · 52 mental factors

From the Abhidhamma — the Buddha’s map of the mind

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Abhidhamma
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You’ll recognise it as

The instant before anything means anything. A message arrives. Your eye lands on it. That is all that has happened so far.

What it actually is

The meeting of sense, object and awareness. Nothing has gone wrong yet. Everything downstream is built on this, and it is already over.

90 seconds

Next time something lands, catch the half-second before interpretation. Say only what physically occurred: "screen lit up." Nothing more. Ten seconds.

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The Abhidhamma is the third basket of the Pali Canon. Theravāda tradition holds that the Buddha taught it in the Tāvatiṃsa heaven.

This enumeration of the 52 mental factors follows the Abhidhammattha Saṅgaha.