This was written several years ago, primarily as personal notes and as a quick supplement for priests-in-training at the time. Consequently it is quite rough around the edges and presumes some prior knowledge. Feel free to schedule a daisan if you’d like to discuss this aspect of the teachings. Below are these notes in their…
This session continues to explore and rebut the illusion that meditative states are liberation. We walk through the 10 Bodhisattva stages, show how realization matures, and offers a living method for transforming insight into awakening.
This session dives deep into the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra’s deconstruction of perception, exploring how karmic tendencies shape consciousness through perfumed appearances (nimitta). We unpack the illusion of cessation, the wave mechanics of ālaya-vijñāna, and the recursive logic of self-projected realms. A dense but embodied discussion on how liberation arises not from silence, but from non-grasping.
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.