The perfect nature is identical to mere-consciousness — Carmelics

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The perfect nature is identical to mere-consciousness

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1.The perfect nature is the ultimate truth of the dharmas
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2.The ultimate truth of the dharmas is reality (tathatā)
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3.Reality as mere-consciousness holds all the time without exception
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1.The perfect nature (pariniṣpanna) in Yogācāra denotes the absence of the imagined nature projected onto dependent nature, not consciousness itself.
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2.Vasubandhu's Triṃśikā distinguishes perfect nature as the eternal absence of subject-object duality, which is a negation, not a positive mental substance.
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3.Identifying a negation (the absence of false superimposition) with a positive entity (mere-consciousness) commits a category error between privation and substance.
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