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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Y2K" data-source="post: 8497081" data-attributes="member: 35049">Buddhism teaches it is the eighth consciousness also termed the Alaya which undergoes rebirth This is the storehouse for our Karma both past and present But even this is not permanent It is collecting and discharging Karma constantlyalaya-vijnana,  (Sanskrit: “storehouse consciousness”)key concept of the Vijnanavada (“Consciousness-affirming”) or Yogachara school of Mahayana Buddhism. Since that school maintains that no external reality exists, while retaining the position that knowledge, and therefore a knowable, exists, it assumes that knowledge itself is the object of consciousness. It therefore postulates a higher storage consciousness, the final basis of the apparent individual. The universe consists in an infinite number of possible ideas that lie inactive in storage. That latent consciousness projects an interrupted sequence of thoughts, while it itself is in restless flux until the karma, or accumulated consequences of past deeds,</blockquote>

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