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Six treatises on Consciousness Only

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all turn out to say the same thing

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have you ever had this feeling

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you walk a long time through a city

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turning left turning right

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tall buildings block every sense of direction

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then one day

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you climb the tallest tower in town

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you look down

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every street you walked

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the alleys that got you lost

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the crossings you thought led different ways

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were all on one single map

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you were not on the wrong road

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you were just standing too low

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hello

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hi everyone

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I am Leo Wang

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over the past ten episodes

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we dove straight into Yogacara

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and took apart six core texts

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the Samdhinirmocana Sutra the Thirty Verses the Hundred Dharmas

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the Eight Consciousnesses Verses the Cheng Weishi Lun the Yogacarabhumi

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every one of them is heavy

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after each episode you probably felt

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okay

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I picked up one more piece

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but today I want to say one thing

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and it may stop you cold

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these six treatises

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are actually saying the same one thing

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what thing

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you think the world you see is the world itself

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but what you see

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is manifested by your own consciousness

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just this one thing

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the Samdhinirmocana Sutra said it once

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the Thirty Verses said it again

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the Hundred Dharmas said it another way

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the Cheng Weishi Lun said it in tens of thousands of words

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the Yogacarabhumi said it in a hundred volumes

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all of it is this one thing

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so naturally you ask

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can one thing really be that hard to say

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why six treatises and hundreds of thousands of words

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from India to China across a thousand years

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that question

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is the heart of this episode

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let me give you an analogy first

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try explaining to an alien who has never seen water

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what water is

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a chemist says

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water is two hydrogen atoms joined to one oxygen atom

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a physicist says

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water is a liquid that freezes at zero and boils at one hundred

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it has surface tension

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it siphons

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an ecologist says

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water is the solvent of all carbon based life on earth

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a poet says

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water is the cool of rain landing on your face

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which one is right

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all of them

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but none of them is complete

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H2O cannot explain the awe you feel before a waterfall

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fluid dynamics cannot explain how a river

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carved the Grand Canyon over millions of years

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the solvent of carbon based life

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cannot explain when a child first sees the sea

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that nameless thing rising in the heart

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water is not an object

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water is an event happening on many dimensions at once

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grab it from any one dimension

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and what you catch is real

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but never whole

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consciousness is the same

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even more extreme than water

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because the one looking at water is not water

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but the one looking at consciousness

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is using consciousness to look

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trying to grasp consciousness with consciousness

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is like a hand trying to grab itself

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this is why Yogacara needs six texts

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what it tries to describe

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is not only harder to catch than water

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the hand doing the catching

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is part of what it must describe

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let me draw you a map

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of how these six treatises relate

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layer one

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the source

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the Samdhinirmocana Sutra is the constitution of Yogacara

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in it the Buddha did one thing

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he split his lifetime of teaching into three stages

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three turnings of the Dharma wheel

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the first two taught suffering then emptiness

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but in the third turning

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the one this sutra stands for

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the Buddha said something deeper

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the emptiness you understood before

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is not enough

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emptiness does not mean nothing exists

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everything you experience

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is consciousness manifesting through causes and conditions

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this was the first time

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a sutra stood up and said

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do not just look at the surface of the world

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and do not just call the world empty

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look at the thing that is manifesting the world

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this is legislation

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every later Yogacara work

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unfolds inside this legal framework

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laying the theory

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the Yogacarabhumi and the Thirty Verses

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came from the brothers Asanga and Vasubandhu

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one older brother

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doing two completely opposite things

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the older brother Asanga

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said to have received it from Maitreya himself

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wrote the Yogacarabhumi

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its ambition is bigger than Yogacara itself

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it does not only explain how consciousness manifests

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it wants the complete map of consciousness

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from an ordinary person opening their eyes to light

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to a practitioner in the deepest absorption

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all the way to buddhahood

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every possible level of consciousness

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it labels and classifies them all

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seventeen stages

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are seventeen floors of consciousness

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from the basement to the roof

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laid out floor by floor

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unfold it

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and you get a full cross section from ordinary being to buddha

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the younger brother Vasubandhu did the opposite

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in thirty verses and six hundred characters

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he compressed the entire core logic of Yogacara

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the Thirty Verses are like a tightly compressed interface document

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it will not tell you how every gear turns inside

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how many modules the system has

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how the modules call each other

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and what the whole architecture looks like

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a hundred volumes and six hundred characters

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are two extremes of the same system

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the older brother expands

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one is a satellite map

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the other is a subway map

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both of the same city

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why two brothers would do opposite things

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because they faced different readers

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some need to see the whole building before they relax

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others need only a sketch and can derive the rest

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Asanga gave the panorama

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Vasubandhu gave the handle

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whichever kind you are

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the Cheng Weishi Lun

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this treatise has an unusual origin

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after Vasubandhu finished the Thirty Verses

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ten later Indian masters each wrote commentaries

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and each understood it a little differently

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Xuanzang carried all the commentaries back to China

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he translated none of them on its own

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he did something bolder

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he melted all ten views into one

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and wrote this grand synthesis

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what the Cheng Weishi Lun does

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is open up that compressed interface document

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and show the logic behind every line of code

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how the eight consciousnesses work together

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how seeds are stored and how they fire

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and become your experience the next moment

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within one act of knowing

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how the perceiving and perceived aspects divide the work

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on the road from ordinary being to buddha

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how consciousness actually turns into wisdom

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if the Thirty Verses are the blueprint

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the Cheng Weishi Lun is the construction manual

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you not only know what the machine looks like

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you know where every screw goes and how many turns

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tools and quick reference

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the Hundred Dharmas is also by Vasubandhu

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and it does something very practical

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it makes a list

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how many elements exist in the world of mind

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one hundred dharmas in total

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clear at a glance

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this is not a treatise to read

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it is a table to look things up in

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like the periodic table in chemistry

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you check it before running an experiment

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to confirm what you hold and where it belongs

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the Eight Consciousnesses Verses go further

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Xuanzang wrote them himself

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twelve verses in four groups

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just over three hundred characters

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the earlier texts ran to tens or hundreds of thousands

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to sketch the core traits of each consciousness

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how the first five consciousnesses operate

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where the sixth consciousness reaches its limit

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how the seventh consciousness clings

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under what conditions the eighth one runs

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one group per class of consciousness

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short enough to memorize like a chant

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you can print these twelve verses out

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and stick them beside your cushion

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when a thought surfaces in meditation

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what is its mode of activity

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each precise enough to use in real practice

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now you hold the whole map

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six dimensions

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the Samdhinirmocana Sutra is the philosophical one

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it answers why we look this way

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the Yogacarabhumi is the panoramic one

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it answers how many levels there are

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the Thirty Verses are the logical one

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they answer what the core framework is

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the Cheng Weishi Lun is the engineering one

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it answers how the thing actually runs

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the Hundred Dharmas is the taxonomic one

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it answers what the parts are

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the Eight Consciousnesses Verses are the operational one

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they answer where to look right now

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put all six dimensions together

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and you get a full blueprint of your own mind

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but what comes next may matter more

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why do we need six dimensions at all

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why can one sutra not do it

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because mind is not an object you can walk around

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mind is something happening right now

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however you choose to look

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it shows up in the shape of that looking

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does that sound familiar

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this is exactly what Yogacara itself says

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all dharmas are consciousness only

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your way of seeing

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helps produce the very thing you see

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the six Yogacara texts

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are six ways of seeing

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each of them true

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they close in on the whole of mind

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but never take the final step

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do you hear it

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Yogacara is not only describing mind

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the way it exists

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is living proof of how mind works

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why can six treatises not finish one thing

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because the thing they speak of

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no words ever exhaust reality

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Yogacara used its own structure

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to prove its own point

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okay

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we have come this far

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so let us take stock

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ten episodes in

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what are you actually holding

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first

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you have a toolbox for analyzing mind

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the layers of the eight consciousnesses the prism of the three natures

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the seed model of causality the fourfold breakdown of knowing

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these are not facts to memorize

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they are tools you can pull out and use

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from now on any Buddhist classic you meet

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you can take apart with this kit

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the Surangama Sutra hunts the mind in seven places

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lay the eight consciousness frame over it

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and you see at once what it is asking

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the Lotus Sutra folds three vehicles into one

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shine the three natures on it

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and you spot where it meets Yogacara

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second

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you have a road map for practice

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the four investigations and four true wisdoms are the entry work

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the five level consciousness only contemplation is the advanced method

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the five stages of turning consciousness into wisdom are the full path

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Yogacara does not just explain how the world works

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it tells you

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how to walk out of the maze you built yourself

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third

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you have an immune system

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when someone says all is empty so nothing matters

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you know they mistook dependent arising for pure fabrication

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when someone says the soul is eternal

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you know Yogacara has nothing permanent in it

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only a stream of consciousness arising and passing instant by instant

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when someone says practice means thinking nothing

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you know that is suppressing thoughts

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not turning consciousness into wisdom

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analytic tools a road map an immune system

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these three things

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are what you really take from these ten episodes

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they ask you to believe nothing

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and to worship no one

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you only have to use them

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use them once

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and you will know if they are worth it

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but let me add one more layer

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someone asked a very good question in the comments

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after learning all these Yogacara concepts

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could they become another kind of attachment

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yes

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Yogacara saw that coming

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the Cheng Weishi Lun speaks of two obstructions

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one is the obstruction of afflictions

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the other is the obstruction of knowledge

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what is the obstruction of knowledge

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it is the precise frameworks you learned

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becoming the wall in your way

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you love the system too much

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you start explaining everything with it

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you start taking your analysis for reality itself

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but Yogacara will tell you

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that it too is only a raft

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even the Dharma must be let go

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let alone what is not Dharma

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we covered this line in the Diamond Sutra episode

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it means

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the tool that carried you across the river

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must be set down on the far bank

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Yogacara is an extremely refined raft

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so refined you cannot help loving it

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but it was not built

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for you to live aboard

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it was built so that once across

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you have the courage to leave it at the shore

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the good news is

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you do not have to let go just yet

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because starting next episode

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we enter stage three of this series

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the brilliant chapters of Mahayana scripture

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the first eight episodes

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laid the foundation

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from the Agamas to the Diamond Sutra

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from the Heart Sutra to the Madhyamaka treatise

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that was the baptism of the Prajna system

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episodes nine through eighteen

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were a systematic deep dive into Yogacara

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after ten episodes

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you hold an operating system

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from next episode on

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you will see the applications running on top of it

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first up

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the Lankavatara Sutra

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this sutra is special

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it is seen as the shared source of Yogacara and Zen

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when Bodhidharma came from India to China

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this was the sutra he brought

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it does not lay things out neatly like the treatises

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what it does is more dangerous

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it walks into the Yogacara tower you just built

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and pushes open a window you never noticed

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the tathagatagarbha and the alaya consciousness

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how are they actually related

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does mind have a naturally pure ground

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and if it does

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does that contradict the doctrine of seeds

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these questions

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the six Yogacara texts never answered head on

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they left a crack

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and the Lankavatara walks in through it

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are you ready

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tell me in the comments

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after these ten episodes on Yogacara

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what did you gain the most

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and also

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the one question you most want the Lankavatara to answer

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what is it

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I am Leo Wang

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see you next episode