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- adverb In a
nonconceptual manner.
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Examples
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It is sometimes said that perceptual experiences represent what they do nonconceptually, which is often times equated with analog content (realized in picture-like continuous representations).
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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Learning about the graded stages will help us to go in this direction, the way that the Buddhas have done in full and the Arya Sangha (those who have perceived reality nonconceptually) have done in part.
Comparison of the "Dharma-Lite" and "Real Thing Dharma" Versions of Lam-rim 2009
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It is not made of atoms, does not appear just in the imagination, and is seen nonconceptually with eyes open or shut.
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Gelug is unique in asserting that conceptual and nonconceptual cognition both give rise to appearances of true existence (bden-snang), except when nonconceptually cognizing voidness: an absolute absence of true existence.
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Totally imaginary forms also include dream forms (rmi-lam-gyi gzugs), cognized nonconceptually by mental cognition, as well as the forms of Buddha-figures that appear in visualization practices, either with conceptual or nonconceptual mental cognition.
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This means that in order actually to cognize a “not-yet-happening of something,” either conceptually or nonconceptually, the basis for labeling the “not-yet-happening” needs also to be simultaneously cognized.
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Subtle and subtlest mental activity nonconceptually cognize the same voidness, namely voidness as an absolute absence of true existence.
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Such advanced awareness enables us to cognize, for example, validly and nonconceptually, the forms of our bodies in lifetimes that are no longer happening, and the activities done then, in that form, which are no longer happening.
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Therefore, tantra practice in general includes, in its highest class, using a special level of mental activity for nonconceptually cognizing voidness – clear-light mind – although not all classes of tantra use this level.
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Such forms of physical phenomena can only be validly cognized nonconceptually by mental cognition, and not by sensory cognition.
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