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...
Part in Commentary on “Compendium of Ways of Knowing” – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
Deceptive Cognition and Self-Induced or Other-Induced Cognition
Deceptive Cognition or Seemingly Bare Cognition There are some further ways of knowing besides the standard list of seven. The one delineated in most detail is deceptive cognition (’khrul-shes). Deceptive cognition is also called “seemingly bare cognition” (mngon-sum...
Part in Elaboration of “Lorig: Ways of Knowing”
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...
Part in Elaboration of “Lorig: Ways of Knowing”
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...
Part in Elaboration of “How Cognition of Emptiness Liberates Us”
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...
Part in Explanation of “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
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.
in Mental Appearances
​The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena
Nonexistent phenomena can be objects of cognition, but not objects of valid cognition, only of distorted cognition.
in Mental Appearances
Details of Ways of Knowing: 6 Non-Determining Cognition
With non-determining cognition, the involved object of the cognition appears clearly and accurately, but without a decisive determination of it.
in Ways of Knowing
Details of Ways of Knowing: 9 Indecisive Wavering
Indecisive wavering is a mental factor in conceptual cognition that vacillates between two conclusions concerning its object.
in Ways of Knowing
Details of Ways of Knowing: 11 Semblances of a Bare Cognition
A semblance of a bare cognition is an awareness that is deceptive with respect to its appearing object.
in Ways of Knowing
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