DOC Goodnight Irene: Het Koreaans oorlogsdagboek van marcel fichefet (Herinneringen: Belgen in Oorlog) (Dutch Edition) by Didier Pontzeele in History

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The Lankavatara Sutra draws upon the concepts and doctrines of Yogacara and Buddha-nature. The most important doctrine issuing from the Lankavatara Sutra is that of the primacy of consciousness (Skt. vijñana) and the teaching of consciousness as the only reality. In the sutra; the Buddha asserts that all the objects of the world; and the names and forms of experience; are merely manifestations of the mind: On the contrary my teaching is based upon the recognition that the objective world; like a vision; is a manifestation of the mind itself; it teaches the cessation of ignorance; desire; deed and causality; it teaches the cessation of suffering that arises from the discrimination of the triple world. Because the world is seen as being "mind-only" or "consciousness-only"; all phenomena are void; empty of self (atman) and illusory: There are four things by the fulfilling of which an earnest disciple may gain self-realisation of Noble Wisdom and become a Bodhisattva-Mahasattva: First; he must have a clear understanding that all things are only manifestations of the mind itself; second; he must discard the notion of birth; abiding and disappearance; third; he must clearly understand the egolessness of both things and persons... As to the first; he must recognise and be fully convinced that this triple world is nothing but a complex manifestation of one's mental activities; that it is devoid of selfness and its belongings; that there are no strivings; no comings; no goings. He must recognise and accept the fact that this triple world is manifested and imagined as real only under the influence of habit-energy that has been accumulated since the beginningless past by reason of memory; false-imagination; false-reasoning; and attachments to the multiplicities of objects and reactions in close relationship and in conformity to ideas of body-property-and-abode. As to the second; he must recognise and be convinced that all things are to be regarded as forms seen in a vision and a dream; empty of substance; un-born and without self-nature; that all things exist only by reason of a complicated network of causation... As to the third; he must recognise and patiently accept the fact that his own mind and personality is also mind-constructed; that it is empty of substance; unborn and egoless.