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Venerable Thubten Tarpa Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 1
Answers to questions related to overview of seven types of cognizers and direct perceivers.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Quiz: Seven types of cognizers
Questions covering various topics related to seven types of cognizers.
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Wrong consciousness
Importance of hearing, thinking, and meditating to eliminate grasping at true existence to progress on…
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Inattentive perceivers
Teachings on the type of consciousness that is not ascertaining the objects that appear, and…
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Correct assumer
Teachings on the type of consciousness that concludes without a direct experience or infererence.
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Examining conceptual mind and needs
Working with our mind to distinguish the conceptual thoughts versus the real feelings or needs…
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Subsequent cognizers
Summary of types of consciousness after the first moment and how these arise.
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Inferential cognizers and obscured phenomena
How to apply syllogisms to examine the day-to-day assumptions our conceptual mind makes.
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Facsimile direct perceiver and inferential cognizers
Summary of different types of conceptual consciousness and introduction to inferential cognizer.
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Yogic direct perceiver
Importance of study, logic, along with meditation, to see how things exist and how they…
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Apperceptive direct perceiver
Description of that mind which is non-dual with the consciousness that sees the object.
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