can MN.43 be my alibi?
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It’s not yogacara. It’s missing distinctive functions like store house consciousness perfuming the seed consciousnesses, etc. And please do not view yogacara as an ontology. It is not making any claim that the nature of the world is “mind only” or exists only in the mind. Only the roots keeping us bound to samsara are generated by the mind alone. Yogacara is simply a model of how we are bound and a methodology for unbinding.
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Who ever would try to declare something beyond the six factulties would just fall into misery, because it lies far out of range.
Holding on them as real is common one's Alibi, home, stand, yes.
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The Buddha didn't offer alibis from past wrong doings, he offered us permanent escape, and release from evil unskillful tendencies / qualities. He said we should abandon our unskillful ways. And that we should develop new and more skillful abilities / qualities. When we do this, we will discern the drawbacks and suffering caused by our old ways, and let them go more easily. It's not a matter of brute force, it's more like: from the arising of this comes the arising of that, and, from the ending of this comes the ending of that.
He says so in The Vajjian Monk - Vajjiputta Sutta (AN 3:85):
“Monk, can you train in reference to the three trainings: the training in heightened virtue, the training in heightened mind, the training in heightened discernment?” “Yes, lord, I can train in reference to the three trainings: the training in heightened virtue, the training in heightened mind, the training in heightened discernment.”
“Then train in reference to those three trainings: the training in heightened virtue, the training in heightened mind, the training in heightened discernment. As you train in heightened virtue, heightened mind, & heightened discernment, your passion, aversion, & delusion—when trained in heightened virtue, heightened mind, & heightened discernment—will be abandoned. You—with the abandoning of passion, the abandoning of aversion, the abandoning of delusion—will not do anything unskillful or engage in any evil.”
For definitions of these trainings, see AN 3:90.
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