BUD501 MW1 Valid Cognition Ch. 4-6 Flashcards
Conceptual Consciousness
A consciousness that apprehends in a way that term and referent are mixed.
Nonconceptual Consciousness
A consciousness that apprehends in a way that term and referent are not mixed.
Nonmistaken Consciousness
A consciousness that apprehends the way of appearing of an object in a way that concords with the way of abiding of that object.
Mistaken Consciousness
A consciousness that apprehends the way of appearing of an object in a way that does not accord with the way of abiding of that object.
Coarse Consciousness
Conceptual consciousness
Subtle Consciousness
A nonconceptual consciousness
Hidden Object
The outer object is hidden because it is not directly perceived by consciousness.
Contact of Consciousness and Object
Vaibāṣika - Consciousness and faculty directly apprehend object.
Sautrāntika -Consciousness apprehends an aspect of the object reflected in consciousness, the object remains hidden (near cittamātra)
Consciousness Classifications
- Primary minds and mental events
- Conceptual and nonconceptual
- Mistaken and nonmistaken
- Valid cognition and nonvalid cognition
- Coarse and subtle
Mental Direct Valid Cognition
A nonconceptual, nonmistaken awareness, arisen on the basis of its own dominant condition, the mental sense faculty
Mental Sense Faculty
The cessation of the preceding moment of direct sense perception.
Self-Aware Direct Valid Cognition
A nonconceptual, nonmistaken awareness that experiences itself.
Yogic Direct Valid Cognition
A nonconceptual, nonmistaken awareness arisen from the last moment of highest meditation (samādhi).
Seeming Direct Cognition
A mind that is not nonconceptual or not nonmistaken.
Sevenfold Division of Seeming Direct Cognition
- Mistaken consciousness
- Conventional consciousness
- Inference (syllogism)
- That which arises from inference
- Recollection
- Anticipation
- Consciousness arisen from an impaired basis
