Good evening!
Now we have brighter and warmer days. The spring sphere gives plants and animals
freer and fuller function in their life with more light and warmth.
The snow sphere, like Hima-ālaya (Snow-stored), goes against such a way.
Storehouse-consciousness inside and out makes us less free, full, bright, and warm.
To counter such a severe situation, we must strive hard like making fire by rubbing
wood sticks with continuous and concentrated effort.
Storehouse-consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna) is the salient starting stand of our life,
so we need to transform it to brighter, warmer, fuller, and freer function.
3/14/13
Note: The eighth consciousness, being the substratum or ‘storehouse’ consciousness
(core of the brains and base of communities), controls the seventh consciousness
(mano-vijñāna, mind-consciousness), the sixth (manas, mind) and the five former
consciousnesses (of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body). The fundamental base shift of it
to the great mirror consciousness changes them to equality consciousness, subtlty-
observing consciousness, and duty-fulfilling consciousnesses respectively.
