What are the attributes of the seventh consciousness and what are the effects in practice?

To put it simply, there are two main aspects: first, it is the root of self-grasping, and secondly, it can be the basis for the first six consciousnesses, and the root cause of the pollution of the first six consciousnesses.

The seventh consciousness arises from the eighth consciousness, or in other words, it is established on the basis of the eighth consciousness, and then the eighth consciousness is used as the cause to generate separation and attachment, and to produce a "me" appearance, which is the root of ego. There is a saying here that the seventh consciousness is attached to the eighth consciousness is attached to its "perception", which is a later statement, not in the scriptures, because the four divisions are a theory expounded by later commentators in order to further explain the mind, and the sutras do not explicitly say that attachment is separated, but only that it is attached to the eighth consciousness. In fact, this is relatively easy to understand when you think about it, because the category of "separation" generally corresponds to the seeds of the manifestation of the Dharma, such as mountains, rivers, and the earth, so how can this part of the Dharma be attached to "me" according to the imagination of ordinary people?

The seventh consciousness can also be used as the basis for the first six consciousnesses, and the sixth consciousness is based on the seventh consciousness, and both are turned, and this is easy to understand, because the distinguishing role of the sixth consciousness is first of all to establish a subject that can be separated, and this subject has to fall on the "me" that arises from the attachment of the seventh consciousness, so both are transformed. When the first five consciousnesses come into play, although the activities of seeing, hearing, and so on seem to be indifferent to good and evil in the secular sense, they are also defiled when they are separated by dyeing and purifying, which is because the ego generated by the seventh consciousness has always been the basis for the activities of the first five consciousnesses. This is to emphasize that the eighth and seventh consciousnesses are the basis for the first six consciousnesses.

The seventh consciousness is the defilement consciousness, which is the cause of self-grasping.

In the course of practice, mana consciousness hinders the generation of equanimity and afflictions, so that it is not possible to produce the correct view and state of selflessness, and thus to attain the holy fruit of liberation from samsara.

In Buddhism, it's called mana, and in psychology it's called the subconscious, and it's more like it's always attached to me, for example, when I sleep with your wife, and you feel angry, it's the psychology that arises from this seventh consciousness that is always self-grasping, and you think your wife is yours, and then I sleep, and you think it's a cuckold, and this idea is determined by the sixth consciousness and the eighth alaya consciousness and the mana consciousness mentioned above.

The "aggregate" of the five aggregates is an abbreviation of "kanyun" (Pali: khandha), which means accumulation or union. The five aggregates are the aggregates of color, the aggregate of receiving, the aggregate of thinking, the aggregate of action, and the aggregate of cognition.

Of the five aggregates, except for the first aggregate, which is a material phenomenon, the other four aggregates are mental phenomena in the five aggregates. Theory of the Five Aggregates.

The seventh consciousness is also the aggregate of cognition, and the aggregate of cognition and the aggregate of action are the two aspects of life activity. For example, the relationship between air and wind.

Now, the word "relationship" is generally a kind of relationship that complements each other and breaks the thread, and his word is a kind of attention to help each other.

In fact, what is the relationship between the center of the five hospitals, they are complementary to each other, and it should be the only.

[Seventh Sense].

It is also known as the end of the consciousness, which is the root of my Dharma and two attachments.

Seventh, we share the community.

Hurry up.

The last consciousness is the time when the sixth consciousness is always attached to the self without interruption.

To put it simply:

The sixth consciousness is the mind, which has the function of knowing abstract concepts. When one of the first five consciousnesses comes into play, consciousness arises at the same time. You know how to do math problems, you know how to cook, you know how to make a good impression on others, etc., these are all sixth senses.

The seventh consciousness, which is the last consciousness, is simply "me", "self-grasping", that is, because of the existence of the seventh consciousness, we begin to distinguish between "me" and "non-self", because of the influence of the seventh consciousness, we will be arrogant, persistent, and so on, and if there is no difference between self and non-self, there will be no ranking, comparison, and so on, because there is no meaning.

For example, one person scores 100 points on the test, and another person scores 50 points. If there is no seventh consciousness, then two people are just two fractions for these two fractions. But with the seventh consciousness, there will be comparisons, some people will be arrogant, and some people will be depressed.

Master Pure Space--- seventh consciousness is the source of pollution, pollution. The first one of the seventh consciousness is that I see, I see, I love, I am stupid, I am slow, love is greed, and slowness is ignorance.

The seven consciousnesses are turned, the six and seven are turned together, and the sixth consciousness is separation.

The Ten Dharma Realms are the only consciousness that changes, and there is contamination in the consciousness, and the eight consciousnesses, and the seventh consciousness is the pollution, the root of the pollution. The first one of the seventh consciousness is that I see, I see, I love, I am stupid, I am slow, love is greed, and slowness is ignorance. So the seventh consciousness is the greed and naivety that arise at the same time as me, which is the source of defilement, defilement.

If you can't turn to the seventh consciousness, you won't be able to get a pure mind. The seven consciousnesses are turned, the six and seven are turned together, and the sixth consciousness is separation. Master Tiantai said that they are Buddhas, they are true Buddhas, not fake, they use their true hearts to turn the eight senses into the four wisdoms.

Sixth, seventh, because of the earth's turn, before.

Fifth, the eighth is the fruit upward, so.

Five or eight, don't ask it, just put it.

Six, seven turned, front.

The fifth and eighth followed. To be able to turn these two consciousnesses around, the seven consciousnesses are turned around, the pure mind is in front of them, the six consciousnesses are turned around, the equanimity mind is in front of them, and then there is the great awakening, the great enlightenment, this is the key. What do you practice?

It's just fixing this thing. What Master Zhang Jia taught us is to let go of ego and dharma, and let go of these two attachments, and the problem will be solved.

Master Pure Space --- the sixth consciousness and told you that it is the chief culprit and the first meritorious person, and if it is lost and evil, the sin of the six realms of reincarnation is the first, the main offender; If it can turn back, it will become a Buddha and a Bodhisattva in the future, and its merit will be the first, so it will be the culprit, and we still have to use the sixth consciousness, and we have to use it to contemplate the work.

Kung Fu is used in **? When the six roots are in contact with the realm of the six dusts, this is the dojo, the real dojo, and it is used with mental kung fu. That is, when you know the truth, when you are not attached to all people, not attached to all the Dharma, and when there is no distinction, no attachment, and no hatred when the roots and dust are opposed, you will not be reincarnated, and you will be able to transcend the six realms of reincarnation.

The sixth is the conscious mind, which you usually use, the seventh is the subconscious, which is usually invisible, and in the coma the sixth consciousness is almost ineffective, and it cannot be the master of itself, while the seventh consciousness is still operating, and it is a single line of movement, unable to think.

Referring to such a route, after the death of a person, the sixth consciousness disappears. The eighth consciousness first manifests various realms. In the first great realm, the seventh consciousness will follow the first great realm to be reincarnated and retribution.

If you want to know how to get rid of this relationship. See the Pure Realm Master's Introduction to Consciousness.

The concept of being at the same time as life, no later than me, is the separation of minds.

There may not be many explanations on the Internet about the seventh consciousness (the end of the consciousness), and there are also very old articles, which are not very easy to understand, so I suggest that you look up the explanation of the "root of mind", there are quite a lot of articles about the root of the mind, because the root of the mind is the end of the seventh consciousness.

1: Different sentient beings have their own different "roots-body realms", and as far as we humans are concerned, in our roots-body realms, the consciousness that we can directly feel is the first six consciousnesses, and the seventh consciousness cannot be felt. For example, in the dreamless state of sleep, the seventh consciousness is always active, but we can't feel it.

2: The seventh consciousness thinks about other things, his cognitive ability is not strong, his ability to grasp is very strong, he flies around and grabs, he grabs information everywhere, but he doesn't think deeply. The sixth consciousness can think deeply, but the seventh consciousness is always interfering with him, always sending him information that he has captured indiscriminately.

For example, when a girl sees a boy for the first time, the girl's seventh sense immediately captures the fate of the boy's life, so she gives the information to the six senses, and the sixth sense immediately has a long-lost sense of déjà vu for the boy, and inexplicably likes it. Then the sixth consciousness begins to go through the stage of in-depth cognitive thinking, and the two people fall in love.

The seventh consciousness is constantly captured, and the seventh consciousness of a girl in love may have captured which boy owes him money, so he gave the sixth consciousness, and then the sixth consciousness inexplicably produced a sense of asking for the boy, blaming the boy for not being generous enough to himself, blaming the boy for not doing well enough, so there was a conflict, and then the two broke up unhappily and broke up. After the breakup, the girl's seventh consciousness captured which life the boy was good to herself, so she gave the sixth consciousness, and then the sixth consciousness would inexplicably produce a longing for the boy, so the two got back together. After reuniting, I felt that I couldn't get along, so I separated again, and so on and so forth, until I was tired and painful from tossing, so the sixth consciousness began to think deeply about it and analyze and judge, and finally came to a conclusion, and passed the conclusion to the seventh consciousness, and the two broke up completely.

After a complete breakup, because the seventh consciousness does not have the ability to think deeply and only superficially captures randomly, the seventh consciousness will still keep capturing information and passing it on to the sixth consciousness, causing the girl's sixth consciousness to often think of each other, but at this time it will not be back together, because after the sixth consciousness has gone through in-depth thinking, it has already had its own solid insight, formed a new seventh consciousness information, and will not continue to listen to the old information.

There are many, many differences, and I'm just mentioning the tip of the iceberg here.

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The seventh consciousness is the transliteration of Sanskrit manas, which translates as meaning and the meaning of contemplation. The Consciousness-only sect has established the sentient mind into eight types, and the last consciousness is the seventh of the eight consciousnesses. It is the tainted consciousness of the eighth alayya as the 'me'.

In order to distinguish it from the sixth consciousness (Brahmana mano -vijn a na, the consciousness of the mind, which is the consciousness of mana), it is specifically transliterated in Sanskrit as 'mana consciousness'. This consciousness is always corresponding to the four afflictions of self-ignorance, self-seeing, self-slowness, and self-love, and the view of the eighth alayya consciousness of constant examination is divided into 'me, self-being' and attachment, so its characteristic is constant contemplation. If you cling to delusion, you will create all kinds of negative karma, otherwise, you will stop the negative karma of disturbing emotions and thoroughly understand the truth of the emptiness of human law, so it is called the pure cognition, also known as the cognition of contemplation, and the cognition of contemplation can change.

And since its beginninglessness, it is subtly continuous, without external force, and arises naturally, so its nature is 'there is no memory';It does not lead to unripe fruits, but it can cover the holy way and blind the mind. According to the shallowness and depth of the stage of practice, the Dharma Aspect Sect has three neutral positions in the consciousness of Mana, which are called the three persons, namely: (1) the position of the self-seeing position of the Buddha's consciousness (Brahmana pudgala, i.e., the person), and the position of the person-self-seeing position arises for the eighth alayya consciousness of the Buddha's consciousness.

For example, ordinary people, the two vehicles have learned, and the bodhisattvas before the seven places have leaky minds. (2) The Dharma I see the corresponding position, which is the position of the Dharma I see for the eighth different acquaintance of the end of the cognition. This refers to the bodhisattvas of ordinary people, the two vehicles, and those who have not attained the wisdom of the dharma.

3) The corresponding position of egalitarian wisdom is the position of unobstructed egalitarian wisdom, that is, the bodhisattva enters the path of seeing with the view of dharma-emptiness, and then gives rise to the wisdom of dharma-emptiness and the fruit of Buddhahood in the position of monasticism. Among the above three, the first two are leaky, and the third is non-leaky. In the fifth year of the Treatise on Consciousness, the existence of the Buddha Sutra can be proved by citing the two teachings of the Ranga Sutra and the Liberation Sutra, as well as the six truths, which is called the 'Two Teachings and Six Principles'.

The two teachings, namely: (1) entering the nine predicates of the Ranga Sutra, the nature of contemplation, and the meaning of the name. (2) The Sutra of Liberation says that the defilement of the mind is always born and destroyed with all confusions.

The six principles, namely: (1) There is no uncommon and unclear evidence, which means that although the action of the sixth consciousness is interrupted, ordinary people are not uninterrupted and unclear, and there must be no discontinuity. (2) The first five consciousnesses are based on the first five roots, and the first five realms are the causes, and the sixth consciousness must also have the last consciousness as the root of the meaning on which it depends.

3) The meaning of the name, the meaning of the end, because it is a constant examination and consideration, so the knowledge of the end must be eternal. (4) There is a difference between the two definite differences, the extinction of the sage's entry and the non-thinking of the outer path, because the extinction of the extinction is determined by the existence of the end of the consciousness, and the existence of the end of the consciousness is determined by the absence of thought. (5) Cultivating the non-thinking of being born without thinking, although there is no sixth consciousness, there is still self-grasping, so it is necessary to have the consciousness of the end.

6) If I have sentient beings, I will not be able to prove it, and ordinary people who do good things such as generosity will not become infallible and cannot get rid of self-grasping, but because of the knowledge of the end.

Shanxi small courtyard series.

Orthodox Buddhism.

Whether there are any special functions will be discussed later. The seventh consciousness is a classification and definition of mental activity through inner excavation. Whether meditation to the point of experiencing this state will produce the special functions that people say today, the Buddhist scriptures don't seem to say.

When the practice enters the seventh consciousness, it produces the primary special functions, so the seventh consciousness is considered a preliminary special function. For example, when an inspiration suddenly arises, it means that you have entered the seventh consciousness, but the inspiration flickers and disappears, which means that the seventh consciousness has not been fully opened, and the disturbing habits have not been purified.