The Account of Other Minds in Chinese Yogācāra Buddhism
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Didn't you already ask this?
"Or does he pretend to communicate with other minds, but in fact he knows that only his mind exists, and all other minds are just imaginations created by his mind"
Who's conceptual framework would that be done with?
What do you think minds are, things with an unchanging essence?
As I see it, key to understanding the 'mind-only' perspective is recognising all experiences have to be filtered through subjectivities, there is no truly objective, because no one experiences that, only consilience of experiences: like between different senses, & by comparing with others.
We each carry our own reality, but it's one where we constantly interact with the reality of others. A modern framing is 'peer to peer reality'.
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"That is, when the Yogacarin communicates with other people, does he directly communicate with other minds?"
The Yogachara/Cittamatra is one of the higher tenet systems of Mahayana buddhism with the other being Madhyamaka. Both of these tenet systems attempt to explain the Buddha's teachings through the lens of the Two Truths: the conventional truth, and the ultimate truth. Your questions are confusing these two truths in a way that a Yogacarin would not agree to. That is, a Yogacarin would object to your questions as they rely upon western words and ideas that simply do not fit into the framework of the two truths and the tenet system of Cittamatra.
If a Yogacarin answered your question from the context of the conventional they would say they communicate with other people just like you do: talking and hearing, writing and reading, sign language and so on. From the context of the ultimate, a Yogacarin would ask why do you presume a 'self' and an 'other' where none so exist in the ultimate?
"Or does he pretend to communicate with other minds, but in fact he knows that only his mind exists, and all other minds are just imaginations created by his mind Thank you."
Again, in the context of the conventional the Yogacarin would say there is no "pretending" and this question is just presuming things they do not agree to. In the context of the ultimate, the Yogacarin would ask why do you presume a 'self' and 'other' and a 'his mind'?
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it doesn't really matter to the yogacarin if other minds exist or not. the mind can be one or many for all they care. knowing is karma; it's not permanent, they are waiting patiently for holistic unraveled.best scenario is no conflict, no blaming, no nothing
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