CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Yogachara, Asanga, Vasubandhu

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 2K03
• Professor: Professor James Benn

Document Summary

To show it at the beginning of the path and not at the end. Focusing on a specific, perfect image, which is the dharma of the thing. Ex) a circle of earth, take out stones; you reimagine the earth with all the imperfections gone. Maybe the things we see outside are a mental projection. Soteriologically-> you have the key in your mind just stop the representations of things. Representation only , merely representations , consciousness only is the doctrine of the yogacara school. There is no reality that lies outside the mind. The best part of our minds is deep down. Ex) an apple (same thing just different views) The reality is the world is the projection of ones own mind. These are the thinkers who supply the information we have about the yogacara. They know about emptiness but they don"t see it as a path. * yogacara ontology: processes by which external objects are projected by the mind.