The Straying at the Arising of Thought

Obedient, here means deviating, contradicting, or not being. When thoughts arise, this mind that generates and moves thoughts is not the fundamental mind of the Eighth Consciousness. Because the Eighth Consciousness never generates thoughts, especially thoughts related to worldly phenomena within the three realms—thoughts involving language, writing, sound, or mental conceptions—the Eighth Consciousness does not manifest. Only the deluded mind produces thoughts. Since the sense-center of intellect (manas) ceaselessly clings to worldly phenomena and harbors incessant attachments, the consciousness must continuously give birth to various thoughts and ideas, arising and ceasing, intermittent and fragmented, elusive yet persistently troubling. Therefore, for those without the wisdom of consciousness-only seeds, all observable thoughts are fabricated by the deluded mind; all thoughts originate from the deluded mind, none arise from the fundamental mind of the Eighth Consciousness.