Introduction to the Abhidhamma

  The Abhidhamma is the higher teaching of the Buddha.  It contains the essentials of the Buddha Dhamma without the need for conventional terminology.  It deals directly with those elements which consitute the exact nature of our existence, and all questions of a conventional nature are left aside.  This should not deter one from plunging into the Abhidhamma however.  Once begun, the Abhidhamma can lead us on to a better understanding of the practise of insight (vipassana).