> > Point is how you define consciousness? > > Vaj: > > What's so touchy is as a vajrayana practitioner > you use the word consciousness in very different > ways... > You seem confused about Vajrayana, yet it seems crystal clear from reading words of Arya Asanga and Buddha's sutras!
Arya Asanga puts forth the school's basic doctrines in his Mahaayaana Sutralamkaara Shaastra: 1. Reality is pure consciousness. 2. The phenomenal world is momentary - shunya. 3. The individual ego - the "I" - doesn't really exist. It is neither real nor unreal, nor both, nor neither - it is an illusion. 4. All suffering is due to clinging to the notions of "I" and "mine". 5. Liberation is only the destruction of the illusion or ignorance. 6. The real is non-dual. "When consciousness has no resting place, does not increase, and no longer accumulates karma, it becomes free; and when it is free it becomes quiet; and when it is quiet it is blissful; and when it is blissful it is not agitated; and when it is not agitated it attains nirvana in its own person; and it knows that rebirth is exhausted, that it has lived the holy life, that it has done what it behooved it to do and that it is no more for this world." Source: Samyutta Nikhaaya - 22.53.1
