Direct Perception and Non-Valid Cognition of Consciousness

The direct perception of the mind consciousness: when knowing is correct, that is direct perception; when the dharma understood accords with reality without error, that is direct perception. Conforming to facts is direct perception; reaching truth is direct perception. Knowing without comparison, with correct knowing, is direct perception; knowing without imagination or fantasy, with correct knowing that conforms to actual circumstances, is direct perception. If the mind consciousness were entirely direct perception, the non-valid cognition of the manas would necessarily be corrected accordingly, and one would know all dharmas as they truly are.

Looking at an apple with the eyes yet believing it to be a pear—that is non-valid cognition, not direct perception. Telling barefaced lies is non-valid cognition. Recalling events from childhood and understanding something clearly—that too is direct perception. Contemplating that the material body of past lives is not me, contemplating that the material body of future lives is not me—when the contemplation is correct, that is direct perception. A deity's superknowledge knowing people and events from countless eons ago is direct perception; knowing events of countless eons hence is direct perception.