[MD] awareness and consciousness

[MarshaV]

Greetings,

I can tell this topic and associated books are going to require multiple readings.  I must admit this much detail makes me wail in agony so I present a paragraph to maybe peak someone else's interest. 

"Abhidharma thus became, in Bhikkhu Bodhi's words, a "phenomenological psychology" whose "primary concern ... is to understand the nature of experience, and thus the reality on which it focuses is conscious reality, the world as given in experience".  But what does a "phenomenological psychology" mean?  And what is a "unit or constituent of experience"?  And how is all this related to vijnana, the central concept of this book?  ...". 
       (Waldron, W.,'The 'Buddhist Unconscious': The Alaya-Vijnana in the 
         Context of Indian Buddhist Thought', p.51)


Marsha:
"Conscious reality, the world as given in experience"?  Experience?  Value?  Consciousness?      There's  "Consciousness can be described as a process of defining Dynamic Quality." (LC).  And "‘Static quality’ refers to anything that can be conceptualised and is a synonym for the conditioned in Buddhist philosophy." (MoQ Textbook).  Gee, how can anyone help but be interested in learning more.


Marsha