"This requires the practitioner to carefully discern the appropriate seeds (bīja) to plant in the storehouse (ālaya) in order to pass through meditative states" Would you elaborate?
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Seeds can be thought of as latent potentials while the storehouse is the mind in which they're housed, so to speak. Although these terms are mostly used in the Yogācāra framework, we can also extrapolate to other contexts and even envision this process as tending to a garden.
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"May I meditate without experience of outside phenomena" ..."check the time carefully" This just made me laugh.
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LOL! They clarified that bit in person: Start the timer, follow the instructions, then when you "snap out of it," check the timer at the end to see if you met the 10/15/20 etc. minute mark. I went way over on several occasions, spanning several hours. Another seed took over.

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At least for me it would be interesting to discuss the nature of bija and the process of planting seeds in the storehouse. Yogacara describes the seeds yet says little about how a seed is formed. A year ago this was the burning question of the day for me.
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It would be interesting to me too. Tomorrow, I'll try to go back through the discussion of seeds from Xuanzang's "Demonstration of Consciousness Only," which may yield further sprouts in our fruitful conversations.

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For those who are interested in reading "Empty Cloud: The Teachings of Xu Yun" "The Hua Tou, "Who am I" is a Vajra Sword which, when wielded properly, will cut away the troublesome ego." https://www.google.com/search?q=empty+cloud+the+teachings+of+xu+yun&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m …
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"Dear Friends, don't be like that poor sailor who relied on the written word to achieve an understanding. Find a master who will meet regularly with you. Open your heart to him. The better he gets to know you, the better he will be able to advise and instruct you."
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Link to "Three texts consciousness only" PDF https://www.bdkamerica.org/book/three-texts-consciousness-only …
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