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[object] seeds. There is no time to elaborate on this. Know that this perfuming of the two aspects of object and perceiver is called active perfumer.
The seeds of all dharmas are what arise from the power of one's own mind and self-essence. Let me point to one example. When a person hears the voice of an enemy and gives rise to an evil mind, within this one thought-moment there are necessarily two consciousnesses. First is ear-consciousness. Second is the sixth consciousness cognizing the same object. Since these two consciousnesses at that time both have unwholesome nature with strong function, their perceiving-aspects both retain unwholesome habit-energies of cognizing. What the ear-consciousness perceiving-aspect retains is precisely unwholesome ear-consciousness seeds. *[Margin note: According to the edited text, below "ear-consciousness seeds" sixteen characters are suspected to be missing: "what the consciousness perceiving-aspect retains is precisely unwholesome consciousness seeds□"]* At this time, before each of these two consciousnesses, one sound-dust object-aspect appears.
Now these two object-aspects each retain sound-dust habit-energies of object-aspects and retain sound-dust habit-energies transformed by the substantial eighth consciousness. Those self-habit-energies of object-aspects are precisely the object-aspect seeds of each ear-consciousness. Those habit-energies of substantial sound-dust that are perfumed are precisely the sound-dust seeds within the object-aspects of the eighth consciousness. These seeds are all what the evil mind perfumes. That is, what the ear-consciousness perceiving and object aspects perfume is all perfumed by the power of the unwholesome consciousness's own essence. What the simultaneous consciousness perceiving and object aspects perfume is all perfumed by the power of the unwholesome consciousness's own essence. This is explained just in terms of mind-kings.
If mental factors are included, then there are many perceiving and object aspects that are perfumed. Thus in one moment, what is perfumed produces many seeds. How much more so moment by moment. All these seeds fall into the bottom of one's own mind. Once they have fallen in, except for abandoning them through the holy path, they continue flowing like a raging torrent, arising and ceasing moment by moment without interruption. That bottom of mind is precisely the eighth ālaya-consciousness. This consciousness alone
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maintains the seeds of all dharmas and prevents them from being lost or destroyed. All other dharmas lack this power. Why is this? Either because of interruption, or because of transformation, or because of solidity, or because of not being primary—they all lack the virtue of accommodating all seeds and cannot maintain seeds. Therefore the eighth mind-king alone maintains the seeds of all dharmas. Having pointed to one example, the rest can be known by analogy. All maturation mind and mental factor dharmas have weak nature and cannot perfume seeds. When other consciousnesses cognize the seeds of those dharmas, they perfume those seeds within object-aspects.
This is precisely the seeds of substantial objects. Those mental factors corresponding with superior function also each perfume their respective seeds, no different from the king. Those mental factors corresponding with maturation mind also like the mind-king cannot perfume seeds. Their characteristics can all be known by analogy with the mind-king. Next, regarding karmic seeds: among such three-nature minds and mental factors perfuming seeds, the perceiving-aspects of wholesome and evil minds each perfume their own latter three-aspect seeds of wholesome and evil natures. Among these, the self-seeds perfumed by the mental factor of volition have particularly strong creative power, supporting future fruition seeds. *[Margin note: This is precisely all maturation-indeterminate dharma seeds]* causing future general and specific fruitions to arise. This function resides exclusively in volition seeds. Above these wholesome and evil volition seeds, the capacity to produce maturation fruitions is called karmic seeds. Those various three-nature dharma seeds are all called conventional designation seeds. Either because hearing conventional designations and transforming into various characteristics is what perfumes them, or because minds and mental factors' ability to manifest object-characteristics is like conventional designations, their perfumed seeds are called conventional designation seeds. These conventional designation seeds each produce their own fruits. Therefore they are called direct causal conditions. That is, form seeds produce form manifestations, mind-king seeds produce mind-king manifestations, mental factor seeds produce mental factor manifestations, wholesome dharma seeds
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produce wholesome manifestations, unwholesome seeds produce evil manifestations, covered seeds produce covered manifestations, uncovered seeds produce uncovered manifestations. Even among forms—the five faculties and five sense-objects, among minds—the eight consciousnesses, among mental factors—attention, contact, feeling, perception, volition—such countless different categories each operate this way, each definitely producing their own fruits directly, not producing manifestations of other natures or other dharmas. Therefore they are called direct causal conditions that directly distinguish and produce their own fruits and self-essences. Thus maturation-indeterminate seeds produce maturation-indeterminate fruitions. This is one of the conventional designation seeds. Within these maturation-indeterminate seeds, there are eighth consciousness seeds, corresponding five-count mental factor seeds, proper faculties of the five faculties like eyes, supporting-faculty two-type seeds, maturation-indeterminate six consciousness seeds, and their respective corresponding mental factor seeds—all of these exist. The container-world has four sense-objects as essence; when sound arises, it has five sense-objects as essence. Though such four sense-object and five sense-object seeds are not inner maturation-fruit seeds, since they are external support-places where sentient beings dwell, they are felt by common karma. Therefore they are called external predominant fruits. Thus container-world five sense-object seeds are also what karmic seeds support. Such fruition indeterminate seeds are weak and cannot independently produce manifestations, so they must await other strong dharmas that can provide supporting conditions before producing manifestations. This is logically necessary. When wholesome and evil two types of volition karmic seeds correspondingly follow those general and specific retribution indeterminate seeds, the strong power of those wholesome and evil seeds causes maturation indeterminate seeds to enable those maturation indeterminate seeds to produce future fruits. Because they are strong among wholesome and evil nature dharmas, karma is necessarily limited to wholesome and evil natures. Since covered [consciousness] etc. lack this power, they do not
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become karma. Though the proper karma of this wholesome and evil is in volition factors, the mind-kings and mental factors of one cluster corresponding simultaneously all are not without this power to feel birth. Because retinue of karma is also called karma.
Thus when creating evil karma, within one thought-moment there are many evil seeds. That is, when anger arises, among the three karmas, the sixth consciousness unwholesome mind-king, unwholesome five factors, anger affliction, unwholesome ignorance, eight major secondary afflictions, and medium secondary two afflictions definitely correspond. The remaining mental factors sometimes arise according to circumstances. Such many dharmas are each unwholesome, perfuming seeds simultaneously in one thought-moment. These seeds immediately fall into our store-consciousness, supporting future fruition seeds, continuing moment by moment without interruption. However, among them, because the mental factor of volition is the karma-master, its seed's capacity is particularly called karmic seeds. Because of such repeated support, when this life's fruition is exhausted, after the final thought-moment of death-mind, in the next instant, those supported fruition seeds, having been supported by evil karma, produce dependent and proper retributions that are all unlovely, ugly, defiled, coarse, and base. They may be hell, animals, or hungry ghosts, all according to the differences of that supporting karma. The characteristics of wholesome karma can be known by reversing this. Since initiating karma and moistening birth are the sixth consciousness's exclusive karma, we discuss it in terms of the sixth consciousness. The five consciousnesses are called following-transformation initiating karma, so they can also be known through correspondence. The seventh is invariably covered-indeterminate; the eighth is invariably uncovered-indeterminate. Therefore both are not karma-initiating minds. So to speak essentially, karmic seeds are the capacity of wholesome and evil volition seeds corresponding with the sixth consciousness to support maturation-indeterminate seeds to produce fruitions.