Seeds can produce seeds.
Seeds can produce formations.
Formations can produce seeds.
Formations can produce formations.
The first characteristic of a seed is that it is always changing. It is never static. The second characteristic is that a seed of a mental formation coexists with the mental formation, they serve as cause and effect to each other. The third characteristic is that the seeds form a continuum of fruit and seeds. The fourth characteristic is that a seed is either wholesome, unwholesome or indeterminate in nature. The fifth characteristic of a seed is that it is always ready to manifest when the conditions are right. The sixth characteristic of a seed is that it always bears fruit. That's the law of retribution.
"We continue as a body, as a series of consciousnesses, because store consciousness has the capacity to hold that for us. What we perform as karma, as action, through our thinking and speaking and acting, will always have retribution, and retribution can be seen in the here and the now. Your body, your feelings, your perceptions are a certain way because you have acted in a way that will bring those results. So that is the fruit, the retribution, of your action. The state of your body, the state of your mind, and the state of your environment are the results of your action.
There are two kinds of retribution. The main retribution is your body and mind, the results of your action in the past. You are your action; you are your karma. You are the way you are because you have performed the karma that has led you to this state of body and mind.
The other aspect of retribution is the environment. The environment is you. It’s you who have created that environment because of your karma, your action. There is collective karma and individual karma. Both you and the environment are the fruit of your action, are your retribution. Store consciousness has the power, the duty, to ripen and to manifest the fruit of your action.
The seeds of store consciousness manifest in body and mind and environment. You have not been created by a god; you are a manifestation from your own action. You have not come from the realm of non-being into the realm of being. You will not go from the realm of being into the realm of non-being. You have not been created; you are only manifested. To manifest in this form, and then to manifest in another form, and then in another form, is like the cloud. Now it is a cloud, later on it will be rain. Later on it will be tea or it will become ice cream. There are many manifestations of the cloud. You are like that cloud, and you can choose a path of transformation that you like, that is beautiful."
This mode of functioning of the store consciousness means we are responsible for our world and our future, our happiness and sufferings. Seeds produce seeds and formations. Formations produce formations and seeds. If someone waters the seed of anger in us, the mental formation, anger manifests. The more the seed is watered, the stronger it will be. Using mindfulness we can transform our habits to prevent unwholesome seeds from gaining strength.
The sufferings of having what we do not want, not having what we want, death and separation arise due to the conditioned nature of samsaric phenomena. Since conditioned phenomena do not manifest until many causes and conditions are available. If we want to be truly happy we must skillfully water the seeds of nirvana - unconditioned phenomena.
(Based on the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh.)
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