Important Topics to Learn in the Bodhi Path Centers

• The aggregates of physical form and sensation
  
  
• The aggregates of conception and samskara or mental formation
  
  
• The aggregates of consciousness and the 8 groups of consciousness
  
  
• The three faculties of all-inclusive consciousness
  
  
• The 18 characteristics
  
  
• The twelve sources of perception
  
  
• The twelve interdependent links
  
  
• Inherent self-clinging
  
  
• Objects, sense faculties and consciousnesses
  
  
• Universal / specifically characterized
  
  
• Conceptual / non conceptual
  
  
• How consciousness grasps objects
  
  
• Direct knowledge / inferred knowledge

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• The marks of certain concurrent focus
  
  
• The marks of clarity and awareness
  
  
• Direct yogic perception
  
  
• The Alayavijnana and the mental consciousness
  
  
• The grasping consciousness as explained in the sutras

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• Causes and conditions
  
  
• The five obscurations
  
  
• Ten virtues and ten non-virtues
  
  
• The karma of perceptible retribution
  
  
• The different realms and universes
  
  
• The ten root afflictions and twenty secondary afflictions
  
  
• The four dhyanas
  
  
• The four meditative absorptions of the formless realms
  
  
• The different shamathas

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• The two indivisibles
  
  
• The two forms of impermanence
  
  
• The mind-only assertion of the cittramatra doctrine
  
  
• Conceptual imputation (parikalpita)
  
  
• Dependent phenomena (paratantra)
  
  
• That which is perfectly established
  
  
• Tathagarbha, Buddha nature
  
  
• The difference between ordinary consciousness (vijnana) and primordial wisdom (jnana)
  
  
• The two forms of selflessness
  
  
• The two truths
  
  
• The sixteen emptinesses
  
  
• The different Vipashanas 

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• The 6 paramitas
  
  
• The five paths