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Oct 5, 2026 · 7 min · 5 segments
Does my life matter? Can I really say that actions have consequences? In this short talk Kavyamani explores the Yogacara teaching of the Alaya…
But the Buddha said there is continuity in our experience and things are impermanent.
So in a collection of the Buddhist sayings in verse form, the Dhammapada, he says, do not make light of your failings saying, what are they to me? A jug fills drop by drop.
So the fool becomes brim full of folly.
Do not belittle your virtues saying they're nothing.
A jug fills drop by drop.
So the wise person becomes brim full of virtue.
So the Buddha had a sense that, yes, phenomena rise and fall in every moment, and there is continuity and experience.
But it perhaps wasn't until a few centuries on, the third to the fifth century in the common era, where a movement that developed in Buddhism called the Yogacara came to look a little bit more deeply at consciousness and the nature of mind.
So in the Yogacara, the concept of the Alia Vinyana, which I will unpack in the rest of this talk, developed.
So a rough translation of the Alia Vinyana is the storehouse of consciousness.
And in part, it may have developed as a kind of common sense correction to a wrong view that may develop about impermanence.
But like a lot of teachings that came from the Yogacara, it may also have developed from deep meditation practice over centuries.
But the Buddha said there is continuity in our experience and things are impermanent.
So in a collection of the Buddhist sayings in verse form, the Dhammapada, he says, do not make light of your failings saying, what are they to me? A jug fills drop by drop.
So the fool becomes brim full of folly.
Do not belittle your virtues saying they're nothing.
A jug fills drop by drop.
So the wise person becomes brim full of virtue.
So the Buddha had a sense that, yes, phenomena rise and fall in every moment, and there is continuity and experience.
But it perhaps wasn't until a few centuries on, the third to the fifth century in the common era, where a movement that developed in Buddhism called the Yogacara came to look a little bit more deeply at consciousness and the nature of mind.
So in the Yogacara, the concept of the Alia Vinyana, which I will unpack in the rest of this talk, developed.
So a rough translation of the Alia Vinyana is the storehouse of consciousness.
And in part, it may have developed as a kind of common sense correction to a wrong view that may develop about impermanence.
But like a lot of teachings that came from the Yogacara, it may also have developed from deep meditation practice over centuries.
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