First of all, Buddha recognizes that ALL human beings have the capacity of those eight cognitions.
Then to tell whether a particular human being is using any of these eight cognitions, Buddha certainly observes his behavior. But here, Buddha’s observation is also not limited to the first five cognitions related to the physical world. In other words, Buddha has the ability to “see” characteristics of human beings that ordinary people can’t “see”. This ability to “see” is not limited to Buddha himself. Any enlightened person — what the term Buddha means — will possess such ability. Just to give you an example. In the 1950s and 60s, there was a competition between the US and the Soviet’s intelligence communities, to recruit and develop people who possess “supernatural” cognitive faculties, for example, the ability to see what’s inside a safe deposit box or what’s behind the walls. These are some of the elementary form of Buddha’s ability to “observe”. Sent from my iPad > On Aug 16, 2020, at 10:03 AM, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 9:55 AM Beixiao Robert Liu <b.robert....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Therefore, if you reject the premise of Buddhism and then all its theories >> > [...] > > I'm not rejecting anything I'm just asking a question, if it's not by > observing intelligent behavior then how does Buddha figure out if one of his > fellow human beings is conscious or not, or is alive or not? > > John K Clark > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1EekuYo8Yu1gdv2k-xRPqdnZFyB-jsN9j4PKz_hVFjow%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1570BF83-72C5-49A5-9478-D48C51F2553F%40gmail.com.
