The Nine Consciousnesses Based on The Buddha in Daily Life By Richard Causton

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The Nine ConsciousnessesBased on The Buddha in
Daily LifeBy Richard Causton
SGI-USA Lotus Heights District L. Myring
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The Five Senses

• Taste
• Sight
• Smell
• Touch
• Hearing

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Sixth Consciousness

• Integration of sensory input,
• Judgement concerning external matters
• Karma is formed in the 6 consciousnesses

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Seventh Consciousness

• The realm of abstract or spiritual thought and
  judgement, and ego awareness

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Seventh Mano-Consciousness

• The mano-consciousness thinking mind forms a
  self-concept, often a distorted one, and is
  characterized by self-attachment.
• The self-concept created by the
  mano-consciousness is not experienced consciously
  in the course of daily living it is an idea of
  self-ness on an unconscious or subconscious
  level.
• In addition to an awareness of and an attachment
  to the self, the mano-consciousness also includes
  the ability to distinguish between good and evil.
  
• In this sense, the mano-consciousness may be
  described as a conduit between the manifest
  mental activities and the dormant ones, between
  the conscious and the unconscious.

Source Living Buddhism 01/05 v.9 n.1 p.33
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Seventh Mano-Consciousness

• Key Discussion Point 1
• How can we avoid being trapped in the cage of our
  seventh consciousness, or controled by our
  attachment to ego?

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Alaya - Eight Consciousness

• The repository of the effects of causes made in
  our eternal past.
• The source of darkness and delusion arising from
  our desires.

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Daisaku Ikeda on the Eight Consciousness

• Both good karma and bad karma are stored there
  like seeds in a granary. The term storehouse
  conjures up the image of an actual structure into
  which things of substance can be placed. But in
  fact it may be more accurate to say that the
  life-current of karmic energy itself constitutes
  the eighth consciousness. Daisaku Ikeda in
  Wisdom Of The Lotus Sutra p. 35

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Buddha NatureNinth Consciousness

• The fundamental, original and absolutely pure
  consciousness which is universal and constitutes
  the essence of our lives.
• Without tapping the ninth, our destiny lies in
  the eighth and is fixed.