The Nature of Appearances: Madhyamaka & Highest Tantra

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We have been speaking about appearances in conceptual and non-conceptual cognition. We got the basic mechanism with the Sautrantika presentation and in the Chittamatra variation on it we had just a few things that were different, specifically concerning the natal sources of the various components within the mental hologram. And we saw that – with the Sautrantika – basically what we need to do to help us to overcome our problems and suffering and so on is to at least differentiate between, putting it in simple language, our projections and objective reality.

In Chittamatra, we started to analyze the voidness of all phenomena. And by realizing that in certain ways we take or grasp these appearances to exist in impossible ways, that it causes us problems, so we needed to understand the voidness or absence of certain impossible ways in which these mental appearances exist.

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