Mind

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The cognitive activity of merely giving rise to an appearance or mental hologram of something knowable and cognitively engaging with it.

Tibetan: སེམས། sems

Sanskrit: citta

Synonyms: Mental activity

Other languages

العربية: ذهن

Deutsch: Geist

Español: Mente

فارسی: ذهن

Français: Esprit

Italiano: Mente

Русский: Ум

Tiếng Việt: Tâm

简体中文: 识大

繁體中文: 識大

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Accustoming pathway mind

Advanced awareness of knowing other's minds

Applying pathway mind

Arya pathway mind

Building-up pathway mind

Clear light mind

Close placement of mindfulness

Coarse primordial mind

Deep mindfulness from having dropped down

Eight liberated pathway minds

Eight liberated pathway minds

Eight uninterrupted pathway minds

Eighty indicative conceptual minds

Enlightening words inspired by Buddha's mind

Enlightening words inspired by the compassion on Buddha's mind

Facsimile clear light mind

Five pathway minds

Flightiness of mind

Forms of physical phenomena having the functional nature of mind

Four close placements of mindfulness

Four thoughts that turn the mind toward the Dharma

Liberated pathway mind

Mind's deepest point

Nine stages of settling the mind

Noncontriving mind

Not taking to mind

Object to be gotten rid of by a seeing pathway of mind

Object to be gotten rid of by an accustoming pathway mind

Objects taken and minds that take them

Parted from taking to mind

Pathway mind needing no further training

Primordial mind

Primordial mindfulness of having dropped down to the natural state

Right mindfulness

Seeing pathway mind

Setting the mind

Sixteen phases of the seeing pathway mind

State that mind naturally falls to

Taking pathway minds for attaining the Three Buddha Bodies

Three destructive actions of mind

Three subtle appearance-making minds

Ultimate vehicles of mind

Uninterrupted pathway mind

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