The History of Buddhist Thought c26.43

c26.43

This is the first transformation, the evolution of the seeds that have ripened in the store-consciousness. The second transformation is the evolution of manas, the seventh consciousness. “Depending upon the store-consciousness, and having that as its support, the consciousness called manas, which has the nature of cogitation, functions.” This is the second transformation, in which the manas is accompanied by the heresy of a self. The third transformation is the perception of the sixfold object, body, sound, scent, taste, touch, and ideas (objects of thought). The idea of a self consisting of the skandhas thus becomes concrete. The seventh consciousness (manas) is associated with all the modes of sense and thought and the other non-material activities of the individual. These are the saṃskāras, all the possible non-material states of the individual, and they are given according to the Sarvāstivāda analysis which has been discussed above (p. 162).