We Don't Need Abhidhamma Books

There is no abhidhamma. there is only lokiya dhamma, dhamma to be good in life, and lokuttara dhamma, dhamma that freed the life.

The motive of creating name abhidhamma (prime dhamma) is the same with monks who choose name mahayana. "there is more, take a look."
There are alot of dhamma in this world. Alot. we can talk all things. but only dhamma that liberates that important for monks, and only dhamma to have good lifelihood that important for laymen.
Acording to Buddha the REAL ABHIDHAMMA is not abhidhamma book, but satipatthana, "this is the only way to liberate you.."
So we can say the REAL PRIME DHAMMA or abhidhamma is actually the practice of satipatthana.

The wrong order of Tipitaka: vinaya - sutta - "abhidhamma".
The right order of Tipitaka: vinaya - sutta - tantra (but nonsex ones)
So finally, something can be really useful. since afew of abhidhamma doctrines also contradict the theravadin sutta itself, like how many jhanas around.

Who needs 52 cetasikas theory? Who need 16 nanas theory? These things cannot liberate anyone. Its only a theory of dhamma that never being talked (we call it esoteric knowledge).
Who needs the classifications of 3 points, 5 points, 6 points that the book Abhidhamma are still not enough to store whole 3 points, 5 points, 6 points things that exist in universe.
The laymen intellectuals buddhist like Abhidhamma, because they like to memorize. and usually they use that only to boast that anyone can become smart without being a monk.

The NOBLENESS of abhidhamma (if someone asked me to respect it) is the same heigh as the nobleness of added veda like Bhagavadgita in Hindu.
Because Gotamabuddha never speak any of doctrine that exist in Abhidhamma. Abhidhamma is not Ananda's recollection of Buddha's words.
One can say, Buddha went to heaven to preach Abhidhamma to his mother? but does he saw that? does anyone saw that? If not then, its only a way to sell Abhidhamma to public. nothing else.
Satipatthana being practiced by many monks, and it proved exist. samatha bhavana proved exist. 8 fold noble path proved exist. the importance of vinaya proved exist. but theories of Abhidhamma can be changed, an arahant today can set his own classifications in Abhidhamma.

Nagarjuna rejected theravadin's abhidhamma because its clearly an act of theravadin monks TO LEGALIZE TRUTHS. truths cannot be legalized, all truths. Sabbe Dhamma Anatta.
Better to stay in middle, between the practice to find truth, and the manifestation of truth. Nagarjuna call it madyamaka, today, I call it white lotus buddhism.

Creating a doctrine like 16 enlightements (nana) or there are 52 kind of thoughts, and expecting followers to live with that. things like this is called legalizing the truth, and rejected by Nagarjuna.
The theravada vinaya can still be protested, the sutta can still be protested, but abhidhamma cannot. why? because it got the name Abhidhamma. this trick is also being used by mahayanist monks when creating name Mahayana.
I feel weird everytime I read name "abhidhamma" because that name says that all books of suttas and vinaya are not important since not as high as books of abhidhamma. ironically, there is no practice or doctrine of abhidhamma that can liberate people.

I think cosmos just do the play, makes two groups wrong, to make us the madyamika/whitelotus become right (that if you asked me "so how we supposed to name ourselves?").

More mistakes from Theravada, in this article:
The Rise of White Lotus