Reading week 5: Variable and Unwholesome Mental Factors Copy

Please read the following from your Buddhist Psychology course book:

Chapter 3, Mental Afflictions p.43 to p.54

• Variable Mental Factors, p.43
  • Sleep, p.43
  • Regret, p.44
  • General Examination, p.45
  • Precise Analysis, p.45
• The Three Zones, p.45
• Unwholesome Mental Factors, p.48
• The First Zone and the Three Main Mental Afflictions, p.50
  • Ignorance, p.51
  • Attachment, p.53
  • Aversion, p.54

Supplementary reading (optional):

• Mind in Tibetan Buddhism, Intro: p.37-39
• The Mind and its Functions, Chapter 7: Mental Factors, p. 121-123 (end of the chapter); Chapter 9: The Unwholesome Mental Factors, p.139-151

Please mark complete when you have finished reading these pages so you can move onto the next activity.