BUD520 MW3 Ch 4 Classifications of Mind II

Question 1

Mind That Engages in an Inclusive Manner

Answer 1

A mind that directly engages its specific object without depending on the exclusion of its opposite.

Direct perception
Clear mirror

Classifications of an Inclusive Engagement of Appearances:

1. Actual mode of being of object
2. Mode of apprehension of the mind, which is the subject
3. Concordance of mind and object

Question 2

Key Reasoning: Actual Mode of Being of the Object

Answer 2

With regards to entities that exist as actual objects
They exist without evident and nonevident aspects
Because one entity does not exist as different entities
And different entities do not exist as one.

Question 3

Key Reasoning: Apprehension of the Mind

Answer 3

In inclusive engagement, such as sense direct valid cognition,
In engagement through appearance, there is no remainder
Because one entity does not appear as different entities
And different entities do not appear as one.

Question 4

Key Reasoning: Concordance of Mind and Object

Answer 4

Object and subject are without any confusion
Because in whatever way an object’s features abide
In that same way they are apprehended by the mind,
And because they abide interdependently.

Question 5

Mind That Engages in an Eliminative Way

Answer 5

A mind that engages its specific object by means of the exclusion of its direct opposite.

Apoha
Conceptual mind

Question 6

Key Reasoning: Mode of Superimposition

Answer 6

For the knowable, there exists the way of superimposition
Due to conceptions having different objects of experience
Different isolates appear for one object
And in accordance with the mode of engagement of terms and conceptions,
One imagines the differences to exist in the object as well.

Question 7

Key Reasoning: Explanation of the Purpose

Answer 7

The labels superimposed onto an object, their basis
When one analyzes through reasoning there is a benefit
Because produced, impermanent and so on are not understood to be one in nature
So that they can be understood as one, scholars, having distinguished them, connect them.

Question 8

Key Reasoning: Mode of Superimposition

Answer 8

Phenomena that have the same definition and function are mistaken to be one
Through the power of latent tendencies
Because in accordance with the mode of engagement of terms and conceptions
One imagines that these phenomena also exist as one object.

Question 9

Key Reasoning: Explanation of the Purpose

Answer 9

When the mind confuses one as different, there is a purpose
Because through the power of imagining to be one
All the varieties of instances specific in location, time and situation, and so on
Refutations and proofs can be understood to apply to all instances.

Conceptualists is confused, yet useful in reasoning to unwind confusion here.