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Types of Phenomena
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Categories, Conceptual Isolates, Mental Representations
We started our discussion of conceptual cognition last time and I asked you to think of a dog and examine: what is it that appears? Did you think of all dogs in general? Or did a mental picture of a specific dog come to your mind? Answer please. My dog. So, a specific...
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The Nature of Appearances: Gelug Explanation
Categories and Implicative & Non-implicative Negations
Fine Points about Categories There was an interesting question Ulla brought up this morning that I thought about. That is: how do we know a double negative? We were speaking in terms of specifiers. How do you know that something is not anything other than itself? Let’s say...
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Negation Phenomena: How to Focus on Emptiness
Buddhist Analysis: Generalities and Particulars
In the discussion of ways of knowing things and the objects that are known, we touched on the division between conceptual and non-conceptual cognition, and these points introduce us to the topic of what’s called generalities (spyi) and particulars or instances (bye-brag)....
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Using Buddhist Metaphysics to Analyze a Problem
Objects of Focus and Lines of Reasoning Used in Meditation on Voidness
Brief Review Of the six far-reaching attitudes, generosity and so forth, we began discussing the sixth one, the far-reaching attitude of discriminating awareness. Prior to that were the verses concerning a combined state of a stilled and settled mind and an exceptionally...
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Explanation of “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Ultimate Phenomena: Denumerable and Non-Denumerable
When voidness is cognized conceptually, its superficial truth appears; this is known as denumerable voidness. When voidness is cognized non-conceptually, an absolute absence of truly established existence appears; this is known as non-denumerable voidness.
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Types of Phenomena
Analysis of Free Will Versus Determinism
How the topic of karma is to be understood in relation to the issue of free will versus determinism.
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Karma: Advanced
Static and Nonstatic Phenomena
An analysis of static phenomena, which are validly knowable and unaffected by causes and circumstances, and nonstatic phenomena, which are impermanent, changing from moment to moment.
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Types of Phenomena
Tainted and Untainted Phenomena
A comparison of the Vaibhashika, Chittamatra and Prasangika presentations of tainted phenomena, which perpetuate samsara, and untainted ones, which do not extend it.
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Types of Phenomena
Affirmation and Negation Phenomena: Gelug Definitions
Understanding the difference between affirmation phenomena, which are known simply by affirming the presence or existence of something, and negation phenomena, known by negating the presence or existence of something, enables us to understand nonstaticness and voidness.
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Types of Phenomena
The Two Truths: Vaibhashika and Sautrantika
Vaibhashika and Sautrantika definitions and presentations of the two truths and their modes of existence, as well as of self-sufficiently knowable and imputedly knowable phenomena.
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The Indian Tenet Systems
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