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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”
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
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
Cognition of Impermanence Does Not Bring Attainment of True Stoppings
An overview of the Gelug presentation and some of its ramifications concerning the view of valid cognition.
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Emptiness: Advanced
Details of Ways of Knowing: 3 Apprehension
Apprehension is an accurate, decisive cognition of its own object. Of the seven ways of knowing, bare cognition, inferential cognition and subsequent cognition are apprehensions.
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Ways of Knowing
Details of Ways of Knowing: 5 Indeterminate Objects
An overview of objects that are not decisively cognized within the context of conceptual and nonconceptual cognition.
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Ways of Knowing
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