Cognition

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.

The superficial and deepest truths of anything are those phenomena that the valid conceptual and non-conceptual cognitions, scrutinizing superficial truth on the one hand or deepest truth on the other, take as their involved objects and explicitly apprehend.

What does it mean to understand something, as opposed to knowing it or simply apprehending it?

To understand the Gelug Prasangika presentation of dependent arising and the voidness of self-established existence, we need to understand the distinctions between imputation, mental labeling and designation.

Only the omniscient awareness of a Buddha can cognize all the causal factors that affect which specific “presently-happening result” arises from a karmic tendency.