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Tag Archives: perception
Who or what is reborn?
Buddhism teaches us that the concept of ‘I’ is just that —a notion without a true basis, lacking permanence and substance, an emptiness. That which we believe ourselves to be is a conceptual elaboration, imputed upon the five aggregates of … Continue reading
The Three Natures
The three natures are the imaginary, the dependent, and the perfected. Whatever is grasped by mental designation is the imaginary nature. Non-entities and the appearances of objects arising in the mind are imaginary. The relationship between name and object, such … Continue reading
Emotions are OURS
We develop habitual tendencies through one or more lifetimes, predisposing us to manifest a habitual state of mind. With these tendencies established, we perceive an individual person, an object, or situation, and immediately generate a pleasant, unpleasant, or indifferent feeling … Continue reading
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Tagged analytical, disturbing emotion, emptinesses, feeling, habitual tendencies, mere absences, perception, primordial wisdom
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Mistakes
We can learn from all actions, positive, neutral, and negative, if we remain mindful —that is, if we observe dispassionately the mental processes that led us to them, their actual performance, and the consequences that ensue. The key word is … Continue reading
Posted in Q&A
Tagged better decisions, clarity, consequences, guilt, idealized past, inference, observe dispassionately, patterns, perception, pride, projected future, relevant data set
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Baffled by “The Five Aggregates”?
When studying the Dharma, we often come across terminology that may initially baffle us. However, what is most often required is that we translate and define the terms in ways that are accessible to our understanding. One such difficult term … Continue reading
The Concise Heart Sutra
Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form; form also is not other than emptiness. Sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness are empty. All phenomena are merely empty, having no characteristics. They are not produced and do … Continue reading
Posted in Dharma View
Tagged beyond sorrow, buddhas, complete enlightenment, consciousness, defiled, emptiness is form, form is emptiness, gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi so’ha, gone, no afflicted mind, no attainment, no body, no cessation, no characteristics, no conceptual mind, no consciousness, no decrease, no dependent origination, no ear, no exalted wisdom, no eye, No Fear, no form, no ground consciousness, no increase, no mind, no non-attainment, no nose, no obstructions, no origin, no path, no perception, no phenomenon, no sensation, no sense organs, no smell, no sound, no striving, no suffering, no tactile sensation, no taste, no tongue, no volition, perception, perfection of wisdom, perfectly gone, perfectly gone beyond, phenomena are empty, sensation, surrender to enlightenment, unceasing, undefiled, unproduced, volition
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Perception and inference
The means of validly cognizing an object directly is perception (pratyaksha), and the means of validly cognizing an object indirectly is inference (anumana). The function of perception is to directly reveal the object present to the senses. Subsequently, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Dharma View
Tagged adhyavasaya, anumana, concepts, conceptual understanding, constructive imagination, Dignaga, direct and indirect cognition, direct awareness, inference, interpretation, kalpana, perception, perceptual judgment, philosophy, pratyaksha, religion, science, sensation, senses, svalakshana, unique particular, valid cognition, verbal designation, vikalpa, visual consciousness
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Patience, revisited
When we perceive our impatience as impatience —lack of peace— we can begin to address it. As long as we give it some other meaning, and an external cause, we cannot address it. There are conditions in which our lack … Continue reading
Seven Causal Links of Enlightenment
Perfect enlightenment arises from the awakening mind (bodhichitta). Awakening mind arises from a pure and excellent aspiration. Pure aspiration arises from great compassion. Great compassion arises from great love. Great love arises from affection for sentient beings. Affection for sentient … Continue reading
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Tagged affection, appreciation, aspiration, Atisha, benefactors, bodhichitta, compassion, gratitude, great purpose, love, perception, perfect enlightenment, sentient beings, Taranatha
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