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Buddha's Digital Dance, Page 9

 
    According to the "cognition-only" theory, all phenomena are mental impressions, and not things in themselves. The ego and the objects it perceives arise together simultaneously. In fact, the ego (the sense of self) is itself an object. The ego is no more real than any other perceived phenomenon. Ultimately, there remains only one thing that can not be objectified, what the Yogacarans called the "store house of consciousness" (Skt. alaya vijnana).

    Every moment, the ego (a virtual memory) is alternately remembered and forgotten. The noise, the wavy reverberations, created by rapidly switching between "self" and "other" hide the true nature of our Nirvanic resonator: the alaya vijnana. Indeed, the ego cannot exist for even a moment without referring to this permanent memory ocean. We are restoring, demodulating our phenomenal existence from the Universal resonance. This "cognition-only" logic seems to be the final disparity that distinguishes Buddhist Yoga from Brahmanism.
 
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