Cognition

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.

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

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

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

Conceptual cognition is a deceptive cognition, because it confuses a category and generic representation of a member of a category with a specific item. Western languages call such conceptual labeling “projection.”

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.

Mental activity is made up of six types of consciousness that are aware of an object as being a sight, a sound, and so on, and 51 types of mental factors that qualify or help with the cognition of that object.

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

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.

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