Finishing teaching the virtuous mental factors, and then covering the root afflictions, auxiliary afflictions, and ariable mental factors.
Virtuous and variable mental factors & the afflictions
Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches on the second volume of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, on Buddhist theories of perception and the foundation stages of the Buddhist path.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches on the second volume of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, on Buddhist theories of perception and the foundation stages of the Buddhist path.
Object ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
The 51 mental factors, covering the five object-ascertaining and 11 virtuous mental factors.
The body and mind
The various aspects that compose the body and mind: the twelve sources and eighteen constituents, and the five omnipresent mental factors.
Classification of phenomena
A discussion about meditation and syllogisms, and begins Chapter 3 outlining the Buddhist classification of phenomena.
Reliable cognizers and meditation
The relationship between our thinking patterns and types of cognizers, and how inferential reliable cognizers relate to meditation.
Correct reasons and reliable cognizers
Three kinds of doubt, the Prasangika view of reliable cognizers, and how to know when we have a correct reason and reliable cognizer.
The threefold analysis
Reliable cognizers based on authoritative testimony, and how to undertake the threefold analysis to determine whether a scripture is valid or not.
Reliable cognizers based on example and authoritative testimony
The relationship between wrong consciousnesses and our emotional life, and reliable cognizers based on example and authority.
Reliable cognizers and syllogisms
The types of awarenesses, direct and inferential reliable cognizers, and how to understand syllogisms.
Types of awareness
The seven types of awareness according to the Sautantrika tenet school, and the four types of reliable cognizers according to the Prasangika tenet school.
