Know Your Mind with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2021)
An introduction to Buddhist psychology by Venerable Sangye Khadro. The course explores topics such as what the mind is, perception and conception, types of awareness, and the mental factors.
Know your mind: What is the mind?
Venerable Sangye Khadro Why it’s important to understand the mind, the mind and happiness and suffering, the nature of mind, and the six consciousnesses.
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Know your mind: Perception and conception
The conditions that lead to a conceptual mind. The division of minds into perception and conception and how wrong conceptions come about.
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Know your mind: Direct perceivers and inferenti...
An explanation of the first two of the seven types of mind – direct perceivers and inferential cognizers.
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Know your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness
Explanation of the remaining five of the seven types of mind and the progression from wrong consciousness to realization.
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Know your mind: Introduction to minds and menta...
An overview of the definition of mind, sense and mental consciousnesses. Explanation of main minds and mental factors.
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Know your mind: Omnipresent mental factors
The similarities shared by main minds and mental factors, and the five omnipresent mental factors of feeling, discrimination, intention, attention, and contact.
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Know your mind: Object-ascertaining and virtuou...
Explanation of the five object-ascertaining mental factors and the first three virtuous mental factors —faith, integrity, and consideration for others.
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Know your mind: Virtuous mental factors
Explanation of the virtuous mental factors of nonattachment, nonhatred, nonconfusion, joyous effort, pliancy, conscientiousness, equanimity, and nonharmfulness.
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Know your mind: A general explanation of afflic...
An overview of mental afflictions and explanation of the first of the six root afflictions, attachment, including antidotes to attachment.
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Know your mind: Six root afflictions
Explanation of the meaning and antidotes to the remaining five root afflictions: anger, arrogance, ignorance, deluded doubt, and afflictive views .
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Know your mind: The twenty auxiliary afflictions
An explanation of the 20 auxiliary mental afflictions, which are branches of the three root afflictions, and the four variable mental factors.
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