Good morning everyone.
Today I would like to share with everyone what is our mind warehouse.
Our mind database.
In Sanskrit language, they say Alaya.
It means the field of the mind data in this warehouse.
And this Alaya terminology actually is our mind activity in the warehouse.
Let me give you an example.
It's just like through our eye organ, through our ear organ, whatever we see, whatever we
hear, or whatever the food we taste through the organ of tongue, or whatever we touch
from the skin sensation.
All these five types of organ, from the body, from the eyes organ, our ear organ, our tongue,
smell, skin the
body sensation.
These five sensations we say are the most fundamental
consciousness.
How these five conscious communicate with our mind conscious.
So the sixth conscious is actually our mind, mind conscious.
We say it's six Consciousness.
On top of the Six Conscious, we have the seventh conscious, and the deepest level is Alaya,
which I explained earlier, it's the warehouse and database
of the mind, it collects all activity through
our six senses and building up to the deeper levels of seventh conscious.
Everything store in eighth conscious.
we say it's Alaya.
So in this Alaya database, it means whether we see right now, whether it is bad or good
whatever we feel bad or good now
because this self attachment holding all these sensation, hold up all these conscious, and
never let go.
So it always accumulates into the deepest level of Alaya, the eighth conscious.
So that's why during our meditation, or listening to spiritual sharing you will hear a lot of
sharing giving by myself or by other Masters.
They always coach all of us to let it go.
So the most important technique and easy way actually is just let it go.
So when we are able to practice let it go, it means whatever
Six senses from mind activity collected, they
are stored into the eighth conscious level.
And through our own practice of cultivation and spirituality advancement will slowly dilute
and liberate the attachment level in the under mind
of the subconscious level.
I understand this must be quite difficult to understand because the human have actually
have six conscious, and sometimes they say have seventh conscious.
We say seven conscious is the subconscious.
In Buddhist philosophy, it told us, we have eight conscious, which is the warehouse of
our mind, the mind activity storage in this database.
If we do not let go, if we do not delete it, if we do not eliminate it, will always carry
on with us not only in this term of life, will carry on forward
life after life, until we can advance our
practice let it go.
Otherwise it will always sit in the warehouse and will never remove
from our database.
In another easy way to understand is like a computer, all
the activity we key in we enter in this computer database.
If we do not and never delete it, always there.
As we are the Buddhist cultivators, we need to actually to
review ourselves in our daily behavior.
Not only daily, in the higher level of spiritual
practice sometimes we need to evaluate and reflect ourselves
in moments, in seconds ensure our state of
mind in clarity level.
That's why you see a lot of Buddhist monk and nuns all of us shave the hair and always
wearing the same Buddhist robe, everything around us made simple.
So we don't need to worry about the hairstyle, what we what to have for tomorrow, or what
dress we should wear for spring or winter.
So we can put our energy more on spirituality level of practices.
I wish that can also help you to understand why the Buddhists have so many precepts, rules.
These Buddhist precepts actually is to simplify our life in simpler way that can enhance our
mindful practice to reduce
amount of self attachment.
I wish by ending of the sharing today, you will have more understanding about how our
mind activity goes
and what is our mind warehouse, our mind database.
I hope this can help you to understand your mind activities.
I wish next time you will join me again.
Thank you.