Here is everything we have made to support your study of Thầy's teachings, illustrations and additional explanations around Thầy's commentaries, a reference tool for the map of the mind, and the fifty verses themselves.

2🎯Attention

3🧲Feeling

4📷Perception

5🎬Volition

13🫥Shame before Others

Wholesome — added by Thầy (10)

52🦁Non-Fear

53😌Absence of Anxiety

Primary afflictions (6)

Unwholesome — added by Thầy (3)

62😨Fear

63😰Anxiety

64🕳️Despair

Secondary afflictions (20)

38🙈Lack of Inner Shame

39🙉Lack of Shame before Others

47🌁Lack of Discernment

The map of the mind

The Inner Landscape

The whole of the mind Thầy describes, in one place — the eight consciousnesses, the seeds, and the fifty-one mental formations with their families and valences, each in plain English. The reference to keep open beside the verses.

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The Verses & the Reflections

All fifty verses, in the book's six parts. Pick one on the left and you get Thầy's own words, the illustration where we have made one, and the Reflections written on it — each one an evening we spent on that verse, written out for reading. Open whichever you want. The number beside a verse is how many it has.

Part IV · The Sense Consciousnesses

Verse 29 · Direct Perception

How we touch the world through the five senses.

Their field of perception is things-in-themselves.Their mode of perception is direct.Their nature can be wholesome, unwholesome, or neutral.They operate on the sense organs and the sensation center of the brain.

We have not written on this verse yet. We are working through the book one session at a time, and this page fills in when we reach it. The Inner Landscape covers the terms in the meantime.

The verses are Thich Nhat Hanh's, from Understanding Our Mind (Parallax Press) — shared freely by Plum Village and Deer Park Monastery, and reproduced here with gratitude.