Thursday, January 8th, 1981

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ SEMINAR NOTES

(TYPED)

JANUARY 8, 1981

BUDDHISM; MADHYAMIKA

TOPIC: Buddhism

SUBJECT: Madhyamika

SUBSUBJECTS: Intellect, Innate Mind, Belief, Cittamatra/Yogacara

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Jadunath Sinha, Indian Psychology: Perception

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2023

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Classnotes AB 1981 0104 to 1981 0125.PDF.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1981 01/08 SEMINAR at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Buddhism; Madhyamika

[Classnotes AB 1981 0108 Begin]

1/8/81 Madhyamika

Non-mistaken non-analytic inborn intellect posits existence of an object = belief on divided line. Madhyamika denies the inherent existence of an object but not its existence -- inherent existence of object is posited by the mistaken inborn intellect.

Object experienced is a combination of the object postulated by the innate mind (its facticity or matter) and the object postulated by the mistaken mind (its form, or psychical reality).

See Sinha, Indian Psychology and Perception on Buddhist definition of indeterminate perception. [Note: Jadunath Sinha, Indian Psychology: Perception, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1934. In 1958, with some additional chapters added on Memory, Imagination, Thought and Language, this book was published as Indian Psychology: Cognition, Volume 1.]

Madhyamika distinguishes between mind (objective phase - matter) and consciousness. Whereas Cittamatra analysis is within consciousness.

AD [Anthony Damiani] -- Vijnanavadins are confused idealists (between cosmic and individual mentalism or between streams of matter-mind and consciousness).

[Classnotes AB 1981 0108 End]