Who wants to help me make sense of the idea of karmic seeds, which only fruit at a later time, in the context of an ontology of momentary events...this is what I’m currently banging my head against...
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KTGR liked to use an analogy of a tape recorder, when explaining the cittamatra model of how the alaya-vijnana stored karmic traces and all that. (I think there is a version of this in Progressive Stages) It’s all rather convoluted. I don’t envy you trying to make sense of it.
The concept of karmic imprints on the alaya-vijnana, from a yogacara perspective, depends on misperception (ie: parikalpita). If the meditator experiences a dependent mind moment’ (ie: paratantra) as being empty of perceived/perceiver, then no karmic trace is left (parinispanna).
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I’m notoriously bad at this stuff and mix up the various views according to my heretic freewheeling chaos and to the annoyance of sincere students of madhyamaka philosophy - but perhaps that gives some ideas for where to look for clarification.
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I’m working through Vasubandhu on these issues, and commentaries on Vasubandhu...things are starting to get a bit clearer...but only a bit clearer...
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