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Mind (chitta, sems)

This division of consciousness comprises knowers of an object’s mere entity. There are six types:

A mind cognizing emptiness is necessarily a mental consciousness, except in the case of a Buddha whose consciousnesses are cross-functional.

In dependence on reasoning, the mental consciousness first realizes an emptiness of a particular object conceptually - by way of an image of a vacuity which is a negative of inherent existence; then after much practice the imagistic element is removed, whereupon the mental consciousness becomes a Superior’s wisdom directly cognizing emptiness.


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