Two investigations. Two thousand years apart. Same claim under the microscope.

The Clear Mind Method promises that ordinary suffering isn't fixed — it's generated, moment to moment, by a mind caught in old momentum. This two-book companion set puts that promise to the toughest test available: does it hold up against psychologies built centuries before it, by traditions with no knowledge of it and nothing to gain from agreeing with it?

Book One reads the Method against Sāṃkhya-Yoga's three guṇas — sattva, rajas, and tamas — the classical Indian account of what gives any given moment its felt "weather." Book Two reads the same Method against the Theravada Abhidhamma, which doesn't ask what a moment feels like but dissects, factor by factor, what a mind is actually doing inside it.

Read separately, each book offers a real correspondence — precise in places, and honest about where it doesn't hold. Read together, something sturdier appears: two independent traditions, arriving from opposite directions, converging on the same architecture of mind.

For practitioners, clinicians, and anyone who wants to know whether a modern technique is describing something real or just describing itself — this is a rigorous, unsentimental look at what survives being checked twice.