The Eighth Consciousness Perceives All Dharmas Through Direct Perception

All dharmas are realms manifested personally and solely by the eighth consciousness, and the eighth consciousness can personally cognize them, cognize them directly in the present. Therefore, all dharmas are dharmas existing presently before the eighth consciousness; the eighth consciousness knows them through direct perception and discerns them through direct perception (pratyakṣa), without needing comparison to know them, and even less needing imagination to know them. The eighth consciousness also has no mental activities or characteristics of fantasy and delusive thinking. In this respect, the eighth consciousness possesses incomparably great wisdom, able to know all dharmas through direct perception without any obstruction. The Tathāgata Buddha's seven consciousnesses, like the eighth consciousness, discern all dharmas through direct perception, seeing dharmas in the very moment, without comparison, deliberation, or imagination—this is the result of the seven consciousnesses having accomplished the transformation of consciousness into wisdom, with no ignorance remaining.