Cognition

Indecisive wavering is a mental factor in conceptual cognition that vacillates between two conclusions concerning its object.

A true stopping of impure appearance-making occurs only with enlightenment.

Bare cognition is a fresh, nonfraudulent awareness that is non-deceptive and parted from concepts.

A semblance of a bare cognition is an awareness that is deceptive with respect to its appearing object.

An in-depth analysis of the topic of what it means to understand something, which is important both for our Dharma practice and in daily life.

The Gelug explanation of how all our problems come about because of confusion about appearances, how the mind makes appearances and what is arising and engaged with when we talk about mental activity.

A Gelug presentation of the topic of negations and affirmations, which are crucial in meditating on the negation phenomenon, voidness.

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.

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.

It’s very important to try to understand the various appearances of the mind, how they exist and do they correspond to reality or not.