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About Yogacara

The body is made of materials that have the characteristics of earth, water, fire and wind
And was raised by my parents.
However, the body is changing all the time, getting older and sick, then the body elements go back to their natural forms when we die.


Consciousness depends on our body and the body and consciousness interact with each other.

As men traverse the sea depending upon a boat, the mind occurs depends upon the body.
As a boat traverses the sea depending upon a man, the body occurs depends upon the mind.
As the boat and body depend upon each other to go to sea, the mind and the body are depending on each other.

The Yogacara practiced yoga based on the correlation of the body and mind and it was called ekayogasema.
Yogacaras used the term Yogaksema as same meaning of successful mind cultivation, nirvana.

 

Ekayogakşema?
The term ekayogaksema was used as a biological correlation of the body and mind and Yogachara did not practice mind and body separately so correlating the body and mind is a core practice of yoga.
Furthermore, the term ekayogksema means making 액 and 안 yoga (correlation), transmitting our life from distress and sufferings to nirvana.

 

In the big picture, as distress, sufferings and happiness are mixed in our mind, you can suffer or happy moment by moment, day by day depending on where you put your mind.

Buddha’s teaching stresses that the impartial life between extremes is the beautiful life. Yogacara practiced yoga based on Buddha’s teaching.

 

It is presumed that to emphasise the happiness and ksema obtained by yoga, the term yogaksema was commonly used.
It is important that this term explains the correlation between the body and mind.
It looks like the 유식사상 focused only on the mind, but it doesn’t because the existence of the body was well aware by the profound yoga practice.

 

Ekayogakşema means the body is from eighth consciousnesses at the same time; the body is the objective of the eighth consciousness.

The yogacaras clearly understood the ekayogaksema, the correlation between the body and mind, and realised the correlation between the body and consciousness through the yoga practice.

Conclusively, yogacaras obtained the freedom (prasrabdhi) and happiness (ksema) in the body and mind by practicing yoga for mind.

“ Just as the man depend upon a boat for traversing the sea.

So does the mental-body need the matter-body for occurrence.

 

And as the boat depends up on the man for traversing the sea.

So does the matter-body need the mental body for occurrence.

 

Depending each upon the other the boat and men go on the sea.

And so do mind and matter both depend the one upon the other.”

 

The visuddhimagga (XⅤⅢ,34)