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    It is not the case that The Dharmadhātu (Realm of Reality) is neither wholesome nor 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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    • 1.The Nyingma and Dzogchen traditions identify the Dharmadhātu with rigpa, which is explicitly characterized as primordially pure (ka dag), a positive soteriological quality.
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    • 2.If primordial purity is a genuine attribute of the Dharmadhātu, then wholesomeness applies to it in a supramundane sense, contra the claim of moral neutrality.
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    • 3.Denying wholesomeness to the Dharmadhātu undermines the doctrinal coherence of buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha) traditions, which treat the ground of reality as intrinsically virtuous.
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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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