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    The whole world is a product of mind — specifically, the ... — Carmelics
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    The whole world is a product of mind — specifically, the collective mental actions (karma) of all beings.

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    • 1.Objects do not exist outside the mind.
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    • 2.The Yogācāra theory of the two truths holds that all phenomena are mind-dependent.
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    • 3.Collective mental actions (karma) of all beings produce the experienced world.
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    • 1.Vasubandhu's vijñaptimātratā ('representation-only') doctrine concerns epistemic access, not the ontological generation of a shared physical world.
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    • 2.Collective karma requires a causal mechanism coordinating separate mindstreams, but Buddhist no-self doctrine denies any supra-individual mental substance that could serve this role.
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    • 3.Candrakīrti (Madhyamakāvatāra VI.40-45) explicitly rejected Yogācāra idealism, arguing it cannot account for intersubjective experience without smuggling in a covert Ātman.
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    • 1.Dharmakirti's pramāṇavāda establishes that valid cognition must be causally responsive to external particulars (svalakṣaṇa), implying mind-independent causal relata.
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    • 2.If the world were solely a product of collective karma, perceptual error and correction would lack a principled explanation, since no external standard could distinguish veridical from illusory experience.
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    Candrakīrti (Madhyamakāvatāra VI.40-45) explicitly rejected Yogācāra idealism, a...Collective karma requires a causal mechanism coordinating separate mindstreams, ...Collective mental actions (karma) of all beings produce the experienced world.Dharmakirti's pramāṇavāda establishes that valid cognition must be causally resp...
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    All these arguments based on the facts of experience show that objects do not exist really outside the mind, that they are products of mental creation and that their appearance is entirely mind dependent. Therefore the Yogācāra’s theory of the two truths concludes that the whole world is a product of mind—it is the collective mental actions (karma) of all beings. All living beings see the same world because of the identical maturation of their karmic consequences. Since the karmic histories of b
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    Vasubandhu's vijñaptimātratā ('representation-only') doctrine concerns epistemic...
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