As far as I know, that's right, yes.5heaps wrote:but, there is no thing that it represents. it is just a deluded synthesis imputed onto minute parts, and the more the concentration builds the greater the absorption on the delusion.Virgo wrote:It is held on a concept and while the concept is there, it is not the same as the thing it represents.
Consciousness can know an object that is not a concept, and does frequently, but not during [moments of] shamatha.5heaps wrote:you dont want to agree that clairvoyances are inferences.. you should want to say that just because a mental image is involved, this does not necessitate that the cognition is an inference (it only necessitates that it is conceptual..not all conceptual cognitions are inferential cognitions)
Kevin