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
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.
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.
This session tracks Lankavatāra 2.VI through the seven aspects of self-nature, linking them to meditative thresholds—from mind and wisdom to the Tathāgata’s world. We explore cessation, karmic projection, and how insight reconstructs perception.
In this session we unpack the seven natures of self-nature and the seven aspects of ultimate principle. This session emphasizes fusing classical Yogācāra insight into meditative training—having a direct experience that reveals how selfing arises, how realization descends, and how non-duality is lived, not conceptualized.
In this session, we continue exploring the structure of cessation—tracking how perfuming, projections, and perception dissolve together. The focus turns to what the Lankāvatāra calls the “false thesis” shared with the heterodox: mistaking imagined realms for reality. We clarify the distinction between dharmas and conditions, not as philosophy, but as living anatomy of perception.
2.VI English Furthermore, Mahamati! There are seven aspects of the Ultimate Principle, which are — the realm of mind,the realm of wisdom,the realm of knowledge,the realm of perception,the realm surpassing dualistic perception,the realm surpassing the ground of universal reverence, andthe realm of the tathagata’s self-arrival. Mahāmati! This is the nature of self-nature—what all Tathāgatas, worthy and…