Induced attentiveness (Buddhism, Tibetan)

Self-induced attentiveness is that of validly knowing something to be self-evident. Thus the colour of an object may be known and awareness of its colour is self-induced. Other-induced attentiveness occurs when it is clear that an object is not self-evidently one thing or another. Then there is valid knowledge that further knowledge is necessary to distinguish what the object actually is. For example, although the colour of a flower may be known self-evidently, it may be that further information and cognition are required to know what type of flower it is - there is valid cognition that the type of flower is not known self-evidently. These two are both forms of induced attentiveness. However, other-induced attentiveness may also occur with inattentive perception or distorted perception. In these cases, although the other-induced attentiveness is valid it is only nominally so, as it is based on distorted cognition. Thus two types of induced attentiveness are truly valid ways of knowing - self-induced attentiveness and the first type of other-induced attentiveness. Two further varieties of other-induced attentiveness are only nominally so.

One of the valid ways of knowing of Tibetan Buddhism.