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Cognition
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Syntheses, Categories and Individual Items
Understanding the difference between the definitions of these three terms helps us to deconstruct conceptual thoughts that we have.
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Cognition Theory
Recognizing the Basic Factors of Mental Activity
It is useful to not look at the mind as a “thing” but as mental activity, occurring moment to moment and which can be non-conceptual or conceptual.
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Cognition Theory
Compendium of Ways of Knowing
An introduction to the system of ways of knowing (lorig), a major component of the Buddhist map of the mind. The text covers the various ways in which we cognize objects – valid, non-valid, conceptual, non-conceptual and so on.
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Sutra Texts
Primary Minds and the 51 Mental Factors
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.
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Mind & Mental Factors
The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena
Nonexistent phenomena can be objects of cognition, but not objects of valid cognition, only of distorted cognition.
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Mental Appearances
Congruent and Noncongruent Affecting Variables
The aggregate of karmic formations (Skt. samskaraskandha) contains two types of affecting variables.
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Mind & Mental Factors
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
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
Lorig: Ways of Knowing
According to the Sautrantika tenet system, there are seven ways of knowing an object. To understand the seven in more detail, we first need to know what a way of knowing (“lorig” in Tibetan) is.
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Ways of Knowing
Types of Appearances Mind Gives Rise To: Gelug Explanation
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.
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Mental Appearances
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