Cognition

With non-determining cognition, the involved object of the cognition appears clearly and accurately, but without a decisive determination of it.

Nonexistent phenomena can be objects of cognition, but not objects of valid cognition, only of distorted cognition.

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.

The Indian Buddhist tenet systems present graded levels of understanding of how things exist like an illusion, which we can use in our daily lives.

An overview of the ways of knowing within the context and point of view of the different Indian Buddhist philosophical tenet systems.

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

Milarepa introduces a young man to mahamudra meditation to search for his mind.

All four noble truths are about what we do with our minds therefore most of the work that we do in the Dharma is basically with how our minds work.

The various Tibetan Buddhist traditions differ as to the voidness non-conceptually cognized by each of the three types of practitioners – shravaka, pratyekabuddha and bodhisattva – when becoming an arya.

A presentation of the Karma Kagyu explanation of how the mind works according to sutra.