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