Mental Factors

If we are aware of the ten mental factors that are involved with every single moment of our experience, we can mold situations in such a way that they optimize the experience.

An analysis of the nature and different subtleties of the mind.

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

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.

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.

Corresponding to the two truths as defined in the Mahayana tenets, there are two bodhichitta aims: conventional and deepest.

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.