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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"The Kośa assures us that the power of praṇidhāna (vow; resolution) can produce pure fruit, meaning that when one is in a dhyāna, a previous vow can get one into one of the lower level pure states." -Lusthaus, Buddhist Phenomenology (paraphrase of Vasubandhu, Abhidharmakośa)
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