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Consciousness-onlyIn Buddhism, Consciousness-only (Sanskrit vijñapti-mātratā, vijñapti-mātra, citta-mātra; Chinese 唯識, pinyin wei shi) is a theory according to which all existence is nothing but consciousness, and therefore there is nothing that lies outside of the mind. This means that conscious-experience is nothing but false discriminations, imaginations; a provisional antidote; thus, the notion of consciousness-only is an indictment of the problems the activities of consciousness engender. This was a major component of the thought of the school of Yogācāra, which was introduced to East Asia by the Dharma character school of Buddhism and had a major impact on subsequent schools. Doctrine According to the Vijñānavādins, embedded at the heart of Buddhism lies a seeming paradox. In constrast to the Brahmanic teachings of the Upanishads, the Buddha stated quite clearly that the Self (Sanskrit atman) is an illusion and that man thus has no soul (anatman). However, there is transmigration (samsara) from one body to another one. This poses a difficult question: If there is no soul, what is it that reincarnates? The theory of Consciousness-only starts by explaining the regularity and coherence of sense impressions as due to an underlying store of perceptions (ālaya-vijñāna) evolving from the accumulation of traces of earlier sense perceptions. These are active, and produce "seeds" (Skt. bija) similar to themselves, according to a regular pattern, as seeds produce plants. Each being possesses a store of perceptions and beings which are generically alike will produce similar perceptions from their stores at the same time. The external world is created when the ālaya (storehouse) consciousness is "perfumed" (薰) by seeds, ie. effects of good and evil deeds. To summarize, the seeds interact in three ways:
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