"[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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"...according to the Abhidharma-Yogācāra, conscious sensations and perceptions are constituted by supervening on the local distribution of co-temporal dharmas made available by the sense faculties, basic consciousness and other mental factors..." 1/
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"...The reflexivity of conscious states accounts for the synchronic unity of self-aware subjective states at a time. But note that, there is no veridical awareness of succession; there is only a succession of awarenesses..." 2/
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"...Diachronic unity of successive awareness is only an illusion, a conceptual fabrication of the ego-consciousness." 3/3 -Monima Chadha, Time-series of ephemeral impressions: The Abhidharma-Buddhist view of conscious experience
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