Wednesday, March 15th, 1978

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

MARCH 15, 1978

BUDDHISM: YOGACARA

TOPIC: Buddhism

SUBJECT: Yogacara

SUBSUBJECTS: Mentalism, Tejas, Sambhogakaya, Vritti, Alayavijnana, Vasubandhu

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• C.G. Jung, CW 5, Symbols of Transformation

• Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), The Serpent Power

• C.G. Jung, CW 11, Psychology and Religion: West and East

• Vasubandhu, Vimsatikavijnaptimatratasiddhi (Twenty Verses on Consciousness Only)

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NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Alan Notes 02 1977 to 06 1979.PDF.

• All spelling, capitalization, and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1978 03/15 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Buddhism: Yogacara

[Alan Notes 0315 1978 Begin]

Yogacara does not differentiate individual and cosmic mentalism -- leads to certain problems in their epistemology -- unanswerable questions.

Tejas (Jung Vol. 5) [Note: C.G. Jung, CW 5, Symbols of Transformation, p. 165.]

Sambhogakaya -- medium between subject and object -- vritti or thought -- intermediate realm of antahkarana.

Woodroffe -- Serpent Power (in first hundred pages) [Note: Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), The Serpent Power]:

thought is objective to mind --

mind as perceiver and perceived (vritti)

Psychology and Religion: West and East -- Jung -- p. 330 [Note: C.G. Jung, CW 11, Psychology and Religion: West and East.]

Alayavijnana is not a thing but a mode of being in constant instantiation -- continual flux.

Mind = reservoir of previous perception as vasanas.

For Yogacara there is no concept of World-Mind but only individual mind producing its experience.

20 Stanzas -- Vasubandhu [Note: Vasubandhu, Vimsatikavijnaptimatratasiddhi (Twenty Verses on Consciousness Only).]

The mode of relating to an object is the middle realm of images which is the psyche. Yogacara does not admit of an object (prakritic entity) of which the mind has an image.

Antonio [Anthony Damiani (AD)] -- Yogacara is solipsistic.

[Alan Notes 0315 1978 End]