When I post here my computer generates a bunch of ones and zeros. Those ones and zeros then are transmitted over the internet and when someone clicks on the particular DW thread I've posted to, they can see my post.....although not even the subtle atom of an existent has transmigrated from this world to the next.
However, to paraphrase Nagarjuna, ....not even the subtle atom of an existent has transmigrated from this [computer] to the next.
There are no existent ones or zeros flying out of my machine and onto the internet. Nothing material, nothing eternal, nothing that can be isolated. But the ones and zeros of my post is not restricted to my own computer either.
'nuff said.Malcolm wrote:Basically, the yogacarins assert a carrier medium, the alaya. This is rejected by Madhyamaka.