Valid Cognition, Seattle 2002 ཚད་མ།

Review notes kindly provided by Hanna Severin:

- Seeming Direct Valid Cognition,
there are 7 types:
'Mistaken and conventional consciousness, inference that which is arisen from inference, recollection and actual wish as well as cataracts are seeming direct cognition. '
- Inferential Valid Cognition , a valid reason has to have 3 modes:
1) the subject quality, 2) the forward pervasion, 3) the reversed pervasion
- the reason that is a result
a reason is called 'affirming reason' where as all of the reasons that prove emptiness are 'refuting reasons', they are negating reasons
All reasons that prove emptiness: The five middle way reasons of non possibility
1) the reason that examines the essence and shows that there is no essence
2) the reason that examines the cause,
the reason called the vajra of the thunder ball which shows that there is no arising
3) the reason that examines the result, it refutes arising
4) the examination of the cause and result together that refutes arising in any of the four permutations of one cause or many causes...
5) the king of logical reasons is the reasons of depending arising
( bad audio quality, 50:00 -)
these are the five middle way reasonings,
the three reasons of result, nature and non-possibility....
Milarepa, An Authentic Portrait of the Middle Way, Three Kinds of Confidence in Genuine Reality