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Cognition
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Mental Factors and Other Buddhist Theories of Cognition
Mental Factors There are primary consciousnesses and mental factors. In any cognition there are always these two kinds of conscious phenomena, which share five congruent features (mtshungs-ldan lnga). They share a common (1) object (yul), (2) reliance (rten), (3) mental...
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Commentary on “Compendium of Ways of Knowing” – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
Tainted and Untainted, and Samsaric and Nirvanic Appearances
Tainted and Untainted Appearances We’ve looked at the variables affecting the type of mental holograms that our mental activity gives rise to. These are the variables of “accurate and inaccurate” and “pure and impure” appearances. We’ve seen that these variables refer to both...
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Elaboration of “Types of Appearances Mind Gives Rise To”
Prasangika Variants and Stages of Cognition of Voidness
Understanding Different Interpretations and Analysis in Buddhist Schools We have presented the Sautrantika way of enumerating the different ways of knowing. As we go deeper in our studies we find that there are certain variants to be found. For instance, in Asanga’s...
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Elaboration of “Lorig: Ways of Knowing”
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
Mental Labeling and Purification
Gaining Liberation To gain liberation from uncontrollably recurring rebirth, samsara, we need to reverse the mechanism of the twelve links. We do this by ridding ourselves of the first link, unawareness or ignorance about how the self – me and all others exist. When we have...
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Elaboration of “How Cognition of Emptiness Liberates Us”
Elaboration of “Types of Appearances Mind Gives Rise To”
Our minds give rise to many different kinds of appearances. To avoid confusion, we need to recognize and discriminate among the various different ways in which our minds make things appear to us.
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Mental Appearances
Mind and the Five Aggregates: Karma Kagyu
A presentation of the Karma Kagyu explanation of how the mind works according to sutra.
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The Five Aggregates
Self-Sufficiently Knowable and Imputedly Knowable Objects
All Indian Buddhist tenet systems, except Vaibhashika, agree that the validly knowable “me” is not a self-sufficiently knowable phenomenon, it is imputedly knowable.
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Emptiness: Advanced
Details of Ways of Knowing: 4 Presumptive Cognition
Presumptive cognition is an invalid cognition that conceptually takes its object correctly and freshly but presumes it to be true either for no reason, a wrong one, or even a right one but without understanding why it is correct.
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Ways of Knowing
Cognition of the Two Truths: Gelug Tenet Systems
To know how to cognize voidness, both conceptually and non-conceptually, and thus how to rid ourselves of the true causes of our true sufferings, we need to know the steps that each Indian Buddhist tenet system explains for the meditative process for realizing voidness.
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The Indian Tenet Systems
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