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Vasubandhu used a hundred words

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to build the entire universe.

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Chemistry has the periodic table;

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over a hundred elements build all matter in the universe.

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Biology has four base pair letters;

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their combinations write the source code for all life on Earth.

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But have you ever wondered if

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human consciousness,

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all your experiences,

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your emotions,

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your thoughts,

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and everything you perceive as the external world,

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could also be assembled from a single chart?

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Sixteen hundred years ago,

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someone did exactly that.

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Using just a hundred words,

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he wrote a short text of a few hundred characters

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to categorize everything you can ever experience,

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leaving nothing out.

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This text is called the Treatise on the Door to Understanding the Hundred Dharmas.

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Hello,

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everyone,

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I am Wang Lijie.

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In the last episode, we discussed the Thirty Verses on Consciousness-Only.

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That is the constitution of Yogacara philosophy.

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Those thirty verses condense the operating principles of the entire conscious system.

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Today's Treatise on the Hundred Dharmas

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is the periodic table of Yogacara.

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The constitution tells you how the country operates;

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the periodic table tells you what building materials the country is made of.

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Put them together,

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and you can see the entire structure of the building.

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The author of this treatise is Bodhisattva Vasubandhu,

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the same person who wrote the Thirty Verses.

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The translator was Master Xuanzang,

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in the 22nd year of the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty.

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This treatise is extremely brief,

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with only a few hundred characters in the original text,

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but the information density is incredibly high.

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It originates from Bodhisattva Maitreya's Yogacarabhumi-sastra.

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The Yogacarabhumi-sastra lists 660 dharmas.

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Vasubandhu felt that was too many;

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beginners simply couldn't remember them all.

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So he did something that people in the era of Large Language Models

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can especially understand:

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Knowledge Distillation.

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He compressed the 660 dharmas into 100,

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removing the redundant and secondary ones,

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while keeping the indispensable core nodes of the structure.

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He compressed it by a factor of 6.6,

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without losing a single piece of core information.

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Furthermore, the very first sentence of this treatise clarifies its ultimate purpose.

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Vasubandhu says:

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"As the World-Honored One said,

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all dharmas are without self."

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What are "all dharmas"?

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What does "without self" mean?

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He then used the hundred dharmas to answer these two questions.

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He wasn't making an encyclopedia;

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he was using categorization to dismantle attachment.

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You think there is a solid "me" experiencing the world;

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Vasubandhu takes your experience apart into a hundred components and says,

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"Look,

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which one is you?"

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These hundred dharmas,

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Vasubandhu divided into five major categories.

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The order of these categories is very deliberate.

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I'll give you a panoramic overview first,

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Category One:

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Mind Dharmas.

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There are eight of them,

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which are the Eight Consciousnesses we discussed before:

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Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory, and Tactile consciousness;

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Mental, Manas, and Alaya consciousness.

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These eight are the processors of the conscious system,

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the generators of all experience.

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Mental Factors (Caitasika).

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There are 51 of them.

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This is today's main highlight;

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I'll break them down for you in a moment.

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'Mental Factors' refers to dharmas associated with the mind,

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various functions that operate in tandem with consciousness.

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You can think of it like this:

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The Mind (Citta) is the CPU,

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and Mental Factors are the processes running on it.

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The CPU itself is neutral;

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it just handles the computation.

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But the processes can be good or bad —

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some are antivirus software,

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There are 11 of them.

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it's a general term for matter and physical phenomena.

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This includes the five sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body),

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the five sense objects (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches),

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plus 'dharmas included in the sphere of cognition,'

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which are things with no physical substance that the mind can still process,

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Yogacara does not deny the existence of Form.

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the Form you experience

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is entirely the result of consciousness's manifestation.

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Mind-dissociated Formations (Citta-viprayukta-samskara).

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There are 24 of them.

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This is a real mouthful.

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In plain language, it means things that

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don't have a direct correspondence with the mind,

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yet aren't physical matter either.

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Examples include time, space, number, speed,

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causality, titles, and the cycle of birth and decay.

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You use these every day,

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but they aren't physical objects,

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nor are they specific mental states.

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They are abstract structures created when consciousness processes information.

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they are data structures and the runtime environment.

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They aren't hardware or applications,

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but the system can't run without them.

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Unconditioned Dharmas (Asamskrta).

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There are 6 of them,

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including Space, Cessation through wisdom, and Cessation not through wisdom,

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Immovable Cessation, Cessation of perception and feeling, and Suchness.

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The previous 94 dharmas are all 'conditioned,'

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meaning they arise from causes and are subject to change.

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These 6 unconditioned dharmas are unborn and undying.

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The most important is 'Suchness' (Tathata) —

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the original nature of all things,

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the 'Perfected Nature.'

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It is what Prajna wisdom ultimately sees.

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Look at the order of these five categories.

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Mind is at the very front,

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while Unconditioned Dharmas are at the end.

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Vasubandhu didn't arrange them randomly.

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He's using this sequence to tell you a core idea:

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'All things are consciousness-only.'

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Everything begins with the mind,

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unfolds from the mind,

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and eventually returns to the mind's original nature.

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This sequence itself is a condensed roadmap for practice.

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Now let's dive into the second category:

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The 51 Mental Factors.

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This is the most brilliant part of the 'Hundred Dharmas'

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and the most useful for daily life.

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The 51 Mental Factors

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are divided into six groups.

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Group 1:

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Everywhere-pervading (Sarvatraga) mental factors.

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There are 5 of them.

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Contact, attention, feeling, perception, and volition.

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"Universal" means

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no matter what you are doing

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or what state your mind is in,

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these five are always online.

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They are the lowest-level processes of consciousness,

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impossible to turn off.

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Contact (Sparsha)

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is the meeting of the sensory organ, object, and consciousness.

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Your eyes meet light,

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your ears meet sound;

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this meeting itself is contact.

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Attention (Manasikara)

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is the activation of focus,

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where the brain allocates resources to an object.

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Feeling (Vedana)

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is the internal sensation:

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pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral.

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Perception (Samjna)

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is "taking a sign,"

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labeling the information you receive.

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"This is red;"

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"That is Mom's voice."

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Volition (Cetana)

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is the will

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that drives you to react.

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These five steps

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run through you every single moment.

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Right now, as you hear my voice,

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that is Contact.

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You focus your attention on this sentence:

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Attention.

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You find it interesting or a bit boring:

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Feeling.

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You categorize and tag what I am saying:

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Perception.

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You decide whether to keep listening or stop:

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Five steps,

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completed in an instant.

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This description and modern cognitive science's information processing model

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are almost identical.

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Cognitive science says the flow of human information processing is:

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Stimulus input, attention selection, emotional tagging,

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classification, and decision-making.

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The Five Universal Factors from 1,600 years ago

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and the flowcharts cognitive scientists draw today

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are exactly the same.

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The second group:

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the Five Object-Determining Factors.

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There are five:

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Desire, Resolve, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom.

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"Object-Determining" means

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they are not always online like the Universal ones;

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they activate only under specific conditions.

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Desire (Chanda)

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is the longing for a certain object.

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Wanting hot pot

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are both Desire.

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in Buddhism, desire is not a negative term;

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it is neutral.

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Wholesome desire drives diligent practice;

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unwholesome desire drives indulgence in pleasure.

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The key is the direction.

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Resolve (Adhimoksha)

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is forming a firm understanding and belief in something.

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When you hear an argument

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and a sense of certainty wells up inside,

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that is Resolve.

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Mindfulness (Smrti)

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is retention and memory.

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When you meditate and focus on your breath,

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keeping it from wandering,

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this keeping is Mindfulness.

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The core of modern mindfulness training

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is this very mental factor.

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Concentration (Samadhi)

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is the power of focused attention.

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Attention not only initiates focus,

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but also stabilizes it,

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locking it onto an object without distraction.

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Wisdom (Prajna)

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is the power of discernment,

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the ability to distinguish good from evil, true from false, and surface from depth.

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If you look at these five specific mental factors together,

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they describe the high-level functions of human cognition:

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desire, resolution, memory, concentration, and judgment.

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The combination and strength of these five factors

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essentially determine the efficiency of one's learning and practice.

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The third group:

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Wholesome mental factors.

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There are eleven of them:

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Faith, vigor, shame, remorse, non-attachment, non-hatred, non-delusion,

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pliancy, conscientiousness, equanimity, and non-harming.

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These eleven represent positive forces;

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they are the antivirus and firewall of your consciousness system.

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I particularly want to discuss two of them:

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Self-shame (Can) and social-remorse (Kui).

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Many people think they mean the same thing,

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but they don't.

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Self-shame (Can)

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is a sense of shame toward your own inner self.

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you know it yourself,

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and you feel you have failed your own conscience.

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Social-remorse (Kui)

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is the sense of shame felt toward others and society.

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Others find out about what you did,

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and you feel humiliated.

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One is internal,

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the other is external.

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Think about it:

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if a person has neither self-shame nor social-remorse,

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what do we call that?

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It is what we commonly call being 'shameless.'

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The Treatise on the Hundred Dharmas tells you

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that this is not just an insult,

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but a precise diagnosis:

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it means two functions among the wholesome mental factors have failed simultaneously.

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You see,

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Buddhist terminology from 1,600 years ago

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is much more precise than our daily language today.

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The fourth group:

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Root afflictions.

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There are six:

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Greed, anger, ignorance, pride, doubt, and wrong views.

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These six are the roots of the disease,

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the source code of all psychological suffering.

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Greed is grasping.

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Anger is rejection.

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Ignorance is the inability to see clearly.

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Pride is feeling superior to others.

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Doubt is distrust toward what is right.

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Wrong views are incorrect but stubborn beliefs.

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Reflect on it carefully:

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don't all the troubles in your life

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fall into these six categories?

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The fifth group:

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Secondary afflictions.

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There are twenty of them.

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These twenty are the branches and leaves growing from the six root afflictions.

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Look at their names:

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Wrath, enmity, concealment, vexation, envy, stinginess, deceit, flattery, harm,

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arrogance, lack of shame, lack of remorse, agitation,

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dullness, lack of faith, laziness, heedlessness, forgetfulness, distraction, and lack of awareness.

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Each name is so accurate it might make you feel uncomfortable.

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Wrath is an explosive outburst of rage.

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Enmity is not an outburst;

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enmity is remembering the anger,

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clutching it and refusing to let go,

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letting it slowly ferment.

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Concealment is knowing you're wrong,

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but refusing to admit it at all costs,

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even finding excuses to cover it up.

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Envy is feeling bitter when seeing others do well.

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Stinginess is having something but being unwilling to share.

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Deceit is fooling others for personal gain.

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Flattery is distorting oneself to please another.

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Have you noticed?

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There is a particularly interesting set of mirror opposites here.

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In the Wholesome Mental States, there are shame and remorse.

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In the Secondary Afflictions, there are shamelessness and lack of remorse.

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Vasubandhu placed them in opposition

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to show you

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that good and evil are not two completely different things.

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They are two positions on the same switch.

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When the switch for shame is off,

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shamelessness lights up.

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When the switch for remorse is off,

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lack of remorse lights up.

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Spiritual practice is not about destroying an enemy,

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but about flipping the switch back.

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The sixth group:

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Indeterminate Mental States.

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There are four:

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regret, sleep, investigation, and analysis.

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They are called "indeterminate"

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because they are not inherently good or evil.

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It depends on how you use them.

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Regret can be wholesome.

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Regretting a bad deed and repenting

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is a good thing.

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Regret can also be unwholesome.

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Regretting a good deed because you feel you lost out

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becomes an obstacle.

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The same goes for sleep.

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Moderate sleep restores the body and mind.

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Excessive lethargy wastes life away.

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Investigation is coarse thinking.

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Analysis is precise scrutiny.

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Both can be good or evil.

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Alright.

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We have finished the fifty-one mental states in six groups.

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If you look back at this list now,

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you will find something staggering.

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Modern psychology has spent over a hundred years

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building emotion models through experiments and statistics.

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Paul Ekman says there are six basic emotions.

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Robert Plutchik drew an emotion wheel with eight primary categories.

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These models are valuable.

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But when you compare them to the fifty-one mental states

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of the Treatise on the Door to Understanding the Hundred Dharmas,

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you will find a fundamental difference.

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Modern psychology mainly describes the surface spectrum of emotions.

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The Hundred Dharmas provides the underlying source code of emotions.

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Psychology tells you

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that you have the emotion of jealousy.

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The Hundred Dharmas doesn't just name jealousy;

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it tells you it belongs to the Secondary Afflictions,

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rooted in a mixture of anger and pride.

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It also tells you that jealousy and stinginess are related.

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Jealousy is not allowing others to have;

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stinginess is not allowing oneself to lose.

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Opposite directions,

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but the same root cause.

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You aren't just seeing an emotional label,

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but the coordinates within the entire system of consciousness

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and its genetic lineage.

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This is the true value of the Hundred Dharmas.

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It is not a simple list;

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it is a topological map.

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Every dharma has its own coordinates,

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with precise causal and hierarchical relationships with others.

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You don't just know you're angry;

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you can see the circuit the anger traveled through,

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which node it's attached to in your consciousness system,

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what its upstream source is,

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and what it will trigger downstream.

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Once you have this map,

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your way of handling emotions changes fundamentally.

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Before, when you were angry,

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you would either suppress it

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or vent it.

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Suppressing is forcing it down;

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venting is lashing out.

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Neither method touches the root.

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Now, you have a third path.

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You take out this map of the Hundred Dharmas.

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Pinpoint it.

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Which mental factor is operating right now?

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Is it anger?

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Is it resentment?

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Is it jealousy?

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Or stinginess?

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Which group does it belong to?

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Which of the six root afflictions does it stem from?

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Just the act of labeling itself

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allows you to step back from the emotion.

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You are no longer the person overwhelmed by anger;

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you become an engineer checking the system logs.

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You haven't eliminated the emotion,

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you've simply seen its origin and structure.

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And seeing itself

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is the starting point of practice.

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You might be wondering,

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"Can these 100 dharmas really cover all experiences?

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Could something be missing?"

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That's a good question.

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Vasubandhu himself actually gave the answer.

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The title "Shata-dharma-vidyamukha-shastra" includes the term "Mingmen."

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"Ming" means mastery or understanding;

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"Men" means a gateway.

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He didn't say these 100 dharmas are the sum of all phenomena;

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he said

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these 100 dharmas are the gateway to mastering all phenomena.

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Like the periodic table doesn't list every molecule in the universe,

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but once you master the elements,

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you have the foundation to understand all molecules.

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1,600 years ago,

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when Vasubandhu compressed 660 dharmas into 100,

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he couldn't have known

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that 1,600 years later something called Large Language Models would exist,

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using nearly the same strategy to compress human knowledge

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into weight distributions in a parameter space.

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He couldn't have known

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that what he was doing has a modern name: knowledge distillation.

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Even less could he have known

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that this list of 100 components he left behind

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points to the same ultimate question as today's cognitive scientists

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trying to build consciousness models:

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What are the basic building blocks of our subjective experience?

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However,

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after explaining these 100 dharmas today,

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one question keeps spinning in my head.

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The periodic table has a specific characteristic:

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Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen—

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these elements themselves are not alive,

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but specific combinations allow life to emerge.

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The 100 dharmas are the same way.

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Individually, they are extremely simple mental functions—

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contact, feeling, perception,

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greed, anger, ignorance.

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When taken apart,

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there is nothing mysterious about them.

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But their specific combination

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gives rise to the complete sense of "self" you feel right now—

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that self with a story, which thinks it truly exists.

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So, here is the question:

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If this "self" is just a temporary assembly of 100 parts,

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when you take the parts away one by one,

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where am "I"?

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You can try this right now.

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Pause for three seconds.

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Notice: what is your strongest mental activity at this moment?

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Is it the "Desire" to know more?

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Is it the "Wisdom" making judgments?

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Or is it "Restlessness," wanting to click away to something else?

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The act you just performed

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is the greatest gift of this teaching.

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You are no longer just pushed around by emotions and thoughts;

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you become an engineer who can catalog the parts of your consciousness.

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Once you can catalog them,

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you can choose.

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Once you can choose,

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you are no longer a prisoner of the 100 parts;

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you become their observer.

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And that position of the observer

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is where true practice begins.

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I am Leo Wang.

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See you next time.