Objects of abandonment of the path of seeing
Divisions:
- Conceptions of apprehendeds མཐོང་སྤང་དུ་གྱུར་པའི་ཤེས་སྒྲིབ་གཟུང་རྟོག
- Conceptions of apprehenders མཐོང་སྤང་ཤེས་སྒྲིབ་འཛིན་རྟོག
Possibilities of the conceptions: (by way of objects)
- Apprehendeds but not Apprehenders: Adherence to forms and so forth as truly existing objects of utilisation གཟུགས་སོགས་ལ་ལོངས་སྤྱད་བྱར་བདེན་པར་ཞེན་པ།
(Not the latter because it is not an object-possessor) - Apprehenders but not Apprehendeds: Adherence to a single moment of consciousness as a truly existing utiliser ཤེས་པ་སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་ལ་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་པ་པོར་བདེན་པར་ཞེན་པ།
(Not the latter because it cannot be realised by ordinary beings' direct perception
སོ་སོ་སྐྱེ་བོའི་མངོན་སུམ་གྱིས་རྟོགས་མི་ནུས་པ།) - Both: A continuous consciousness རྒྱུན་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ཤེས་པ།
- Adherence to that as an object of utilisation is the conception of apprehendeds
- Adherence to that as a utiliser is the conception of apprehenders
- Neither: Non-dual perfection of wisdom མངོན་གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པའི་ཤེར་ཕྱིན།
e.g. exalted knower of all aspects རྣམ་མཁྱེན།
Not an object of either conception because:- Cannot be directly realised by ordinary beings' direct perception
- Does not exist in by ordinary beings' continua
Therefore, in this context (Vimuktasena's Illumination), this is in relation to ordinary beings:
- Being an apprehended depends on being realised or not by ordinary beings' direct perception
e.g. five sense objects - Being an apprehender depends on existing in the continua of ordinary beings
e.g. a single moment of consciousness
See: Three presentations of conceptions to be abandoned
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