The Buddhist Perspective on the Nature of Mind with Special Reference to Citta Vagga of Dhammapada in the Khuddakanikāya

Abstract

The process that functions inside the mind is able to create the human being as a social being who thrives for the wholesome attainments as well as for the unwholesome attainments and it is totally based within the thought process that takes place inside the mind. When the mind is agitated with the incoming fluxes, it can attach the worldly beings with the cycle of births and deaths without an end. The main objective of this study is to investigate the information in the Dhammapada, Citta Vagga which consists within the Khuddakanikāya to extract the evidence on the nature of mind by concerning on the ways that cause mind’s impurification by also examining the supra-mundane attainments that can be achieved with functioning of mind with the wholesome thoughts. Many controversial points can be seen on the nature of mind and most of them are either philosophical or psychological. The Buddhist perspective stands for these two streams and the Citta Vagga is an ideal evidence for that. The Citta Vagga of the Dhammapada can be shown as a nutshell of Buddhist teachings which endows with the realistic doctrines preached by the Buddha associating the mind.