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The Nine Consciousnesses
by Aum Sai Ram on Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 3:44am

 
The Nine Consciousnesses   
 
 
 
 
The most primaeval layer of consciousness is the ninth or amala consciousness. Unstained by the workings of karma, this consciousness represents our true, eternal self. The revolutionary aspect of Nichiren Buddhism is that it seeks to at one time bring forth the energy of this consciousness--the enlightened nature of the Buddha--thus purify the other, more superficial layers of consciousness.
 

 
 
The Buddhist teaching of the nine consciousnesses offers the basis for a comprehensive understanding of who we be, our true identity. It also helps exempt how Buddhism sees the eternal continuity of our lives over cycles of birth and death. This perspective on the human being is the fruit of thousands of years of intense self-examining investigation into the nature of consciousness.
 
The nine consciousnesses can be model of as different layers of consciousness which are constantly run together to create our lives. The Sanskrit word vijn?na, which is translated as consciousness, includes a wide-eyed range of activities, including sensation, cognition and conscious thought.




 
 

 
 
 
The first five of these consciousnesses are the familiar senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
 
The sixth consciousness is the function that integrates and processes the dissimilar sensory data to form an overall picture or thought, identifying what it is that our five senses are communicating to us.
 
It is primarily with these six functions of purport that we perform our daily activities.
Below this level of consciousness is the one- seventh consciousness. Unlike those layers of consciousness that are directed toward the outer world, the seventh consciousness is directed toward our inner life and is largely self-sustaining of sensory input. The seventh...If you want to get a full essay, mold it on our website: Orderessay



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