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The Dharmadhātu (Realm of Reality) is neither wholesome nor unwholesome.

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1.Wholesomeness is a quality of an action determined by the happiness or pain that action causes.
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2.The Dharmadhātu is unconditioned and actionless — it produces no results and has no causal consequences.
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3.Without causal consequences, the Dharmadhātu cannot be evaluated as wholesome or unwholesome.
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1.In Yogācāra Buddhism, the ālayavijñāna contains wholesome and unwholesome seeds, and the Dharmadhātu is not fully separable from this storehouse consciousness.
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2.If the Dharmadhātu pervades and underlies conditioned phenomena, it inherits a functional relationship to the moral valence of those phenomena.
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3.A ground that structurally enables unwholesome karma cannot be categorically neutral without collapsing the distinction between purity and defilement central to Buddhist soteriology.
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