#Asanga

“Twelve years of meditation showed him nothing; one act of compassion for a dying dog showed him everything. Yogācāra's claim is that its map of the mind was drawn from inside the mind — philosophy from the meditation cushion, not the armchair.”

“You never meet the world raw. Every experience you have is constructed by layers of mind — and the deepest layer is a subliminal storehouse of seeds planted by everything you have ever done, ripening into how the world appears to you.”