A manual of Abhidhamma(Abhidhammattha Sangaha)by Narada Maha Thera 아비담마 안내서-20

Bhavailga and Javana thought-moments, which are explained only in the Abhidhamma, and which have no parallel in modern psychology, are of special interest to a research student in psychology. 아비담나에만 설명되어 있는 (Bhavailga) 활동 정지한 마음과 (Javana) 의식의 흐름 사고 과정은 심리학을 공부하는 학생에게 특별한 관심사이지만  현대 심리학에서 이 같은 것을 찾을 수 없습니다. *The Foundation of Buddhism by Rupert Gethin For the Theravadin Abhidharma there are two basic modes of the mind: the mind that is involved in process (vUhi-citta) and the mind that is free of process (v"ithi-mutta). The mind that is in process is the mind that is actively perceiving objεcts and reacting to those objects; the mind that is free of process is resting in the inactive mode known as bhavailga. This inactive mode characteristically occurs in deep, dreamless sleep. However, according to the theory of consciousness process, the mind momentarily returns to the inactive mode of bhavailga between each consciousness process. The mind in this inactive mode of bhavailg,α is compared to a spider resting in the middle of its web.The web extends out in different directions and when one of the threads of the web is struck by an insect the spider in the middle stirs, and then runs out along the thread and bites into the insect to drink its juice. Similarly, when one of the senses is stimulated, the mind'. like the spider, wakes up and adverts to the ‘door’ of the particular sense in question. Like a spider run-ning out along the thread, the mind is then said in due order to perceive the object, receive it, investigate it, and establish its nature. Finally, again like our spider, the mind enjoys and savours the object. As I have already indicated, this whole process occurs extremely rapidly. In fact what one would ordinarily experience as the simple awareness that one is, say, looking at a beautiful lotus flower is understood to be constructed from countless sense -door consciousness processes of the type just described, as well as mind-door processes internalizmg the information received through the senses.