This talk explores how perception arises from four conditions, including storehouse perfuming and the desire for multiplicity. We examine how beginningless patterns shape our view, how purification is about appropriateness, and how liberation involves skillful participation in the being–becoming flow. Framed through Yogācāra insight, we close with a reminder: the playground includes even the hardest moments.
We unpack the opening paragraphs of Laṅkā 2.9 on mind-only and storehouse consciousness, guiding deep Dharma combat on emptiness, perfuming, and the limits of concept. Includes a clarifying review of the eight consciousnesses.
Citta, manas, vijnana and the Five Dharmas
Umi opens Laṅkā 2.9, clarifies wangxiang, and outlines ODZ’s depth-degree-breadth model. Discussion spans therapy vs. training, chasing peak states, and jhāna as method over hope.
Explores how wave-like consciousness arises from the storehouse mind, how delusion co-arises with sense capacities, and why only advanced bodhisattvas can fully realize its subtle mechanics.
Liberation isn’t a meditative state—it’s an irreversible shift in how we see. Insight reshapes the field by learning how to tend our karma, the garden of our mind, in real time.
From non-possession to as-illusion samādhi, we walk the Laṅkā’s razor edge—seeing through projection without escaping karma. Realization isn’t the end. It’s the beginning of responsible function.
This talk explores wàngxiǎng—the delusive projections that fabricate subject and object—and how their collapse reveals the state of non-possession. We examine why speech becomes just speech, and views just views, when perception is no longer mistaken for reality.
When wangxiang ceases, the illusion of inner and outer is seen through. Free from confusion, the mind sees what is really happening in real time. Here, even samsara and nirvana are equal—fabrications of a mind no longer bound.
A discussion on essential positions and framing in the Lankavatara scheme. Mind-only non-duality, perfuming, seeds, liberation and more.