The samādhi of cessation suspends the stream of sensations in the hyletic flow, which are typically organized by means of the passive synthesis of inner time consciousness.
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Sensations are as if halted by a dam due to the closing of the ‘doors’ of the sense organs (including mind) so that sense objects (including thoughts) do not impinge on them.
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This prevents the associated consciousnesses (including the sixth, mano-vijñāna, and seventh, kliṣṭa-manas) from ‘landing.’ No object is present to consciousness and no act of noesis can imbue it with feeling tone or meaning in such a state.
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"[E]ven though mental consciousness ceases in mindless states, sleep, fainting, etc., when it reappears, its initiating and guiding support is its own former species. The same is true of the five [material] consciousnesses that have stopped, because 'immediately antecedent'..."1/
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"...means that there is no break in the same species of consciousness in the interval. The reason is that when it has perished, it has already become the initiating and guiding support for the present consciousness." 2/2 -Xuanzang, Cheng Weishi Lun
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