About mind/citta that “knows” without using the viññāṇa of the 6 senses

[Jasudho]

@Pondera

The six sense fields cannot arise without consciousness. In the absence of that consciousness, there is a lack of contact.

Agree.

@Pondera

That lack of contact is known via direct knowledge. It exists as a bare relationship between emptiness and the Self.

and

@Pondera

it is the far limit to what the Self can experience.

I have no idea what you mean or how this applies to the teachings in the suttas. What Self?
It’s all processes.

@Pondera

The Self is extremely real. And the Self is extinguished

This is what the Buddha referred to the wrong view of annihilationism. As per Ven. Sujato:

@sujato

To be clear, the annihilationist view is that there is a self, but that self is destroyed (usually at the time of death). Clearly this is not what we mean when we say in English that “the self does not exist”.

Meanwhile,

@Pondera

To exist as a point of reference and to have experienced the unbinding of the being from the body in a state of purified and untouched power. That is how the cessation attainment has meaning.

Except there’s fundamentally no being to unbind. There’s only dukkha and the temporary or final cessation of dukkha.

@Pondera

When a monk is emerging from the cessation of perception & feeling, mental fabrications arise first, then bodily fabrications, then verbal fabrications."

That is the volition I’m referring to.

But that’s not what the suutas says.
Your use of volition here is an addition. The sutta points to combinations of selfless conditions arising and ceasing leading into and out of this state.