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Maybe a read of this chapter could help?

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
Analysis of thought-processes
In this chapter we will begin to see, in a more specific and
direct way, how the analysis of consciousness and the analysis
of mental states can really contribute to the awakening of insight,
and how such analysis can also be interpreted in our daily life to
change our understanding of our situation.
Why analyze the processes of thought or the processes of
perception? To answer this, we need to remind ourselves of the
general purpose of the Abhidharma – namely, to facilitate our
understanding of the ultimate nature of things, which share the
three universal characteristics of impermanence, suffering, and
not-self. In the analysis of thought-processes, we can see impermanence
and not-self clearly revealed, as two analogies from the
discourses of the Buddha show.
The Buddha likened the life span of a living being to a single
point on the wheel of a chariot. He said that, strictly speaking,
a living being only endures for the time it takes one thought
to arise and perish, just as the chariot wheel, whether rolling or
at rest, makes contact with the ground at only a single point. In
this context, the past moment existed but it does not exist now,
nor will it exist in the future; the present moment exists now
but did not exist in the past, nor will it exist in the future; and
the future moment, although it will exist in the future, does not
exist now, nor did it exist in the past.
The Buddha also referred to the case of a king who had never
heard the sound of a lute. When he did hear one, the king asked http://peterdellasantina.org/books/t...enment.htm#c37
Sorry for using this book so often. I only brought one book with me to China.