Buddhist Psychology Flashcards
What is mind?
The agent of clarity and cognition which is clear and knowing.
Seven Fold Division of Mind
1) Direct Valid Perceiver
2) Inferential Cognizer
3) Subsequent Cognizer
4) Correctly Assuming Consciousness
5) Non-discerning Direct Perceiver
6) Doubting Consciousness
7) Deceptive/ Wrong Consciousness
Define direct valid Perceiver
A direct valid Perceiver is a non-mistaken knower that is free from conceptuality.
4 Types of Direct Valid Perceivers:
1) Sense direct perceiver
2) Mental direct perceiver
3) Self-cognizant direct perceiver
4) Yogic direct perceiver
Three conditions necessary for Sense Direct Perceiver:
1) Observed object condition
2) Uncommon empowering condition (sense powers)
3) Immediately preceding condition (consciousness)
Define Inferential Cognizer
A determinative knower, which by dependence on a correct sign as its basis, is incontrovertible with regard to a hidden phenomenon as its object of comprehension.
Three Types of Phenomenon
1) Evident Phenomenon - things we can directly experience
2) Slightly hidden phenomenon - things we can indirectly observe like smoke = fire even if the flames are not visible
3) Very Hidden Phenomenon - phenomena we come to know through others telling us like our own birthday
2 Aspects of Mind
1) Cognitive aspect - recognizes an object
2) Affective aspect - mind feels neutral, attachment or aversion
3 Types of Inferential Cognizers
1) Inference through the power of fact
2) Inference through confidence (belief)
3) Inference through renown (convention)
2 Types of Valid Cognition
1) Direct Valid Perceiver
2) Inferential Cognizer
Define Subsequent Cognizer
A knower which realizes that which has already been realized.
2 Types of Subsequent Cognizers
1) Direct Subsequent Cognizer
2) Conceptual Subsequent Cognizer
Define Correctly Assuming Consciousness
An awareness that correctly assumes a fact but does not fully ascertain its principle object of engagement through direct perception or inference.
3 Ways to Generate Correctly Assuming Consciousness
1) Without a reason
2) Without ascertaining the reason
3) Depending on a facsimile of reason
Define Non-Discerning Direct Perceiver
A knower to which the specifically characterized phenomenon which is its object of engagement clearly appears but is unable to induce ascertainment with respect to it.
3 Types of Non-Discerning Direct Perceivers
1) Non-Discerning Sense Direct Perceiver
2) Non-Discerning Mental Direct Perceiver
3) Non-Discerning Self- Cognizant Direct Perceiver
Define Doubting Consciousness
A knower which by its own power has qualms in two directions.
3 Types of Doubting Consciousness
1) Doubt tending towards fact
2) Doubt tending towards distortion
3) Doubt tending towards both equally
Define Deceptive (Wrong) Consciousness
A knower which is mistaken with regard to its object of engagement.
The Difference Between Mistaken Mind and Deceptive/ Distorted Mind
Mistaken Mind is in regards to the object or act of appearance.
Deceptive/ Distorted Mind is in regards to the object or act of apprehension.
2 Types of Deceptive/ Wrong Consciousness
1) Conceptual Deceptive Consciousness
2) Non-Conceptual Deceptive Consciousness
A) Non-conceptual Sense Deceptive Consciousness
B) Non-conceptual Mental Deceptive Consciousness
3 Fold Division of Mind
1) Conceptual Consciousness- always mistaken mind
2) Non-Conceptual Non-Mistaken Consciousness- synonymous with direct valid perceiver
3) Non-Conceptual Mistaken Consciousness- synonymous with non-conceptual deceptive/ wrong consciousness
4 Types of Relationships
1) Synonymous
2) Contradictory
3) Three Mode
4) Four Mode
Two Fold Divisions of Mind
1) Prime Cognizer and Non-Prime Consciousness
2) Conceptual Consciousness and Non-Conceptual Consciousness
3) Mistaken Consciousness and Non-Mistaken Consciousness
4) Mental Consciousness and Sense Consciousness
5) Eliminative Engager Awareness and Collective Engager Awareness
6) Minds and Mental Factors
6 Groups of 51 Mental Factors
1) Five Omnipresent Mental Factors
2) Five Object Ascertaining/ Determinative Mental Factors
3) Eleven Virtuous Mental Factors
4) Six Root Afflictions
5) Twenty Secondary Afflictions
6) Four Variable Mental Factors
5 Omnipresent Mental Factors
1) Contact
2) Attention
3) Discrimination
4) Feeling
5) Intention
5 Object Ascertaining/ Determinative Mental Factors
1) Aspiration
2) Admiration
3) Mindfulness/ recollection
4) Concentration
5) Wisdom/ Intelligence
11 Virtuous Mental Factors
1) Faith (3 types admiration, aspiration, conviction)
2) Sense of shame out of self respect
3) Sense of shame out of respect for others
4) Non-attachment
5) Non-aversion (3 types towards perpetrators, suffering, causes of suffering)
6) Non-ignorance
7) Enthusiasm/ perseverance/ joyous effort
8) Pliancy/ Suppleness
9) Conscientiousness
10) Equanimity
11) Harmlessness
6 Root Afflictions
1) Attachment/ Desire
2) Anger/ Aversion
3) Pride (7 types: pride, pride of superiority, extreme pride, pride of ego, empty pride, pride of inferiority, pride of wrong view)
4) Ignorance
5) Afflictive View (5 kinds: view of the perishable collection, view of the extremes, distorted view, view of the supremacy of view, view of the supremacy of morality and conduct)
6) Afflictive Doubt
3 Familes of Afflictions (3 Poisons)
1) Attachment
2) Aversion
3) Ignorance
20 Secondary Afflictions
1) Belligerence
2) Resentment
3) Concealment
4) Spite
5) Envy/ jealousy
6) Miserliness
7) Dishonesty/ deceit
8) Pretension/ Dissimulation
9) Vanity/ Haughtiness
10) Harmfulness
11) Shamelessness
12) Non-embarrassment
13) Dullness/ Lethargy
14) Excitement
15) Faithlessness
16) Laziness (3 kinds: being attached to trivial purposes, procrastination, undermining one’s own potential)
17) Unconscientiousness
18) Forgetfulness
19) Non-introspection
20) Distraction/ Mental wandering/ Discursiveness
4 Variable Mental Factors
1) Sleep
2) Regret/ Contrition
3) General Analysis
4) Subtle Analysis
5 Aggregates
1) Form
2) Feeling
3) Discrimination
4) Compositional Factors
5) Consciousness
The 4 Wrong Views
1) Mistaking the impermanent to be permanent
2) Mistaking the painful to be pleasant
3) Mistaking the impure to be pure
4) Mistaking the lacking to be possessed of self
8 Mundane Concerns
Excitement of spirit or loss of spirit triggered by:
1&2) Gain or loss of material things
3&4) Praise or Defamation
5&6) Pleasant or Unpleasant Words
7&8) Happiness or Suffering
The 4 Mindfulnesses
1) Mindfulness of the body (as unclean and foul)
2) Mindfulness of feeling (as of the nature of suffering)
3) Mindfulness of mind (as momentary)
4) Mindfulness of phenomena (as empty of selfhood)
