The Eighth Consciousness ( Sanskrit Alaya - consciousness) A Buddhist Concept and Understanding - By David Tan At this time of beginning of the twenty-first the century, although we had many technology that seems to develop to let humankind to access to new dimensions as to make humans lives more meaningful and many shortcut to make us convenience and do less to gain more. One example is that we can now contact our friends, through Internet, handphones, GPS, satellites and many more in the future as new discovery can make a person become a millionaire if new device is discover first hand. However, the concept of the humans Eighth Consciousness is still a mystery to many and this include me as I begun to search a deeper percept and I wonder whether I has base on my assumption to describe what I know and for how much even I crack my brain to write about how much this Eighth Consciousness that can never be proof with a deductive belief which is mostly inherent in Asian people like myself. As for most Westerner, mostly any concept that cannot be proven was deductive as only by strongly believing in a concept that is the truth and not a delusion seems difficult to accept as there is no scientific proof to verify, many could just denied of such a unproven thing, therefore, believe become a most crucial point to understand with such a deductive belief. The Easterners people of Asia has a more easier ways to used the deductive method of belief, as they are mostly influenced by the teaching of Confucius who teaches to believe first and trust others first, then make a conclusion. In contrast, most Westerners seems to not put believe first unless it can be proven first, however, both method of deductive and inductive belief is is apply to serve in one way or another their benefits. Example, an Easterner may not believe that we can draw money from an ATM machine until he see for himself in a city. This is a reason why most SGI Japanese leaders gave guidance that you had to go back to chant Daimoku to the Gohonzon as their main guidance which members really cannot understand. Wherelse, in the Western countries, members are been taught many Buddhist Concepts and Buddhist principles in order to let them apply to their Buddhist Practice. Most SGI Japanese that life in many decades in western countries had mostly adapted to such changes. As for my own understanding the Eighth Consciousness is just compare to the modern day hard disc with perhaps trillions of gigabytes that will able to record a human of their thoughts, words, and deeds that is defined in Buddhism as karma and karma was originally heard of a few thousand years ago in India in the upper caste which was the caste system in the Braminhism. It was the ancient Buddha, called Gautama Buddha or Sakyamuni Buddha in history, who used karma and was adopted into the Buddhism which he establish in his lifetime of preachings. The concept of karma was most difficult to explain as many magical rituals, traditional and cultural difference add to the confusion and with race difference and language divided human reaction to religion or good phisolophies can often be accepted as the ultimate truth within the human understanding of how we live and death become a very frightening and often misconception among the humankind. This Eighth Conscious actually become actively manifest when the first to the seven Consciousness stay in its dormancy. Example, when a person sleep and in moving into a deep sleep, all the seven Consciousness closes its functions and lay to rest. In this process of sleep, the Eighth Consciousness generate its energy to replenish the energy to supply every consciousness of the first and towards the seven consciousness. ( refer to photo to understand). How the Eighth Consciousness draw its energy from is still a mystery and I would say that it is able to apply to received energy from the comic energy from the universe or any other energy unknown to man. And this can be proven when any practitioner chanted the phrase of Nam- Myoho-Renge-Kyo which was defined as the Mystic Law of the Universe. According the Buddhist sutra, this Mystic Law could only be understood only by Buddhas. According to scientists, energy cannot be destroy in the existence in the universe and galaxies. The eighth Consciousness form as an karmic energy and stay in an individuals life, therefore, when hardships, sufferings, and obstacles appear, the three powerful enemies appear, we must jump and dance with joys as we had shown actual proof in our Buddhist practice. Death is no more a suffering as it is just like going to sleep and revitalise to consolidate our energy to be awaken fresh the next day. While chanting, practitioners can feel a burning warm energy deep inside our lives and this could be achieved about thirty minutes or more and mostly when a practitioner manifest a deeper faith of doubtless, sincere, earnest and pure faith within ones own life. This was just like one been purify of one delusion in thoughts, words and deeds been illuminated by the ninety Consciousness, also called the Buddha Consciousness which was defined as the highest human potential, which can free one from the sufferings from birth, old, sickness and death. These four sufferings are the prime ultimate point that Buddhism serve to free every human being to become enlighten and also at this state of Buddhahood, such an enlighten person will be able to teach other to attain the way as the Buddha teaches. True Buddhism teaches the inner transformation without the need to embrace a higher plane of divine outside the human beliefs in many religion whether traditional or cultural belief or any other physilophy. Nichiren Daishonin inscribe the Gohonzon as the Buddha state of life in which he is awakens and enlighten to, in a written theoretical form of writing and in the Japanese Kanjin, plus the Chinese classic written words, sankrist words, and apply the function of the so called Buddhist gods which inherent in the Universe as the means to establish Buddhahood for the access that every his an being will be able to attain the supreme enlighten state of life know to mankind, this was indeed his profound deep compassion as the Buddha in the Latter Day of Mappo. A person when enlighten to such a state of life as a Buddha does not leave the other nine worlds, but, the world of Buddhahood serve as the ultimate transformation as example, the world of Anger is transform to become a constructive state where Anger is directed at injustice and people who create wars. While greed can be transform into compassion to respected all dignity of all lives in the Universe. The sentients ( the living) and the insentient ( non- living ) also begun to play their Enlighten state, in their nature inherent Buddhas form by providing good weather, water, wind, fire and earth to become constructive values. One example is human survival is basically shelter, food, clothing and desires. In this manner desires also plays a crucial point as human desires to protect mother earth from further damage by not creating any future wars. It is to that only when the desire for every human to become Buddhas that the world will be the best place to live on earth. There is a concept here which Confucius quote how the earth will be living in peace and harmony which he say that when people need not need to lock their doors and walk the streets freely as robbers will be a disgrace to become one. Until this day is establish, I would like to declare that Buddhahood is the ultimate way to live on earth as the most happiest place to live in. The eighth Consciousness is further generated by the nine Conciousness ( Buddhas consciousness) to free the karmic bond in in and have rise to the state of Absolute Happiness teaches by Josei Toda Sensei. Toda Sensei Sensei himself had awakens to his life mission as a Bodhisattva of the Earth to free everyone from suffering as his ultimate aim in his lifetime. The ninth consciousness is also called a pure fundamental state that is free from the karmic bond of sufferings. The concept of the eighth Consciousness is just like bad and evil karma been deleted and good karma is been inserted into our human like hard disc as the suffering from Birth and Death which is sufferings,the other side of the coin is Enlightenment towards our three existence of our lives, our past, present and future lives. This can be also understood as night and day, winter or spring concept. Ikeda Sensei teaches us to pray and chant Daimoku with an earnest faith and earnest faith leads to earnest actions. He also teaches us to do our Gongyo and Daimoku which gave us the purification like the essence of checking a plane before take off from the ground. A plane will newer be able to land safety if every part of the plane is left uncheck, therefore, doing Gongyo and chanting Daimoku served as the checking of our very own weakness and be awakens to it, strive to strengthen our weaknesses and the inner transformation took place. Human revolution take place as been taught by Toda Sensei. Nichiren Daishonin states; If you wish to free yourself from the sufferings of life and death, then you must chant this Mystic Law of Nam- Myoho- Renge -Kyo which is inherent in your own life. and Miao-Lo states; If you embrace any teachings outside your life, that is not Buddhism, but some inferior teachings. I sincerely hope that my short sharing will benefit everyone and wish everyone attain Absolute Happiness in this life. Thank you, David , dated 2nd July 2014.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:07:58 +0000
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