Một dòng thở nhẹ – Nhật ký Thiền

ConsciousnessOnly (Yogācāra) is a profound system of Mahāyāna Buddhism, explaining how the mind operates, how seeds are planted in the store consciousness, how perception creates the world we live in. But because of its many terms and structures, ConsciousnessOnly sometimes becomes a complex map that makes learners easily lost.

Jiddu Krishnamurti goes in the opposite direction:
he does not draw maps, he simply invites us to look directly into our own mind.

He speaks about:

· the formation of memory
· the influence of the past
· the reactions of the mind
· the division between “observer” and “observed”

These things, though not expressed in Yogācāra language, are very close to its spirit:

the mind creates the world, and the world reflects the mind.

I choose Jiddu as the candle to illuminate ConsciousnessOnly because he brings me back to the essence:
all perception is a manifestation of mind, and only by seeing the mind clearly can we see the world clearly.

This series does not aim to explain the eight consciousnesses or analyze the store consciousness systematically. I only want to record what I see when placing Jiddu’s teachings next to ConsciousnessOnly: an interesting meeting between ancient wisdom and a modern, direct way of looking.

I hope this light helps us enter ConsciousnessOnly not with intellect, but with the living observation of our own mind.