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The Gelug Sautrantika and Svatantrika tenet systems specify the mental continuum as a continuum of mental consciousness, the Gelug Chittamatra system as a continuum of all-encompassing foundation consciousness (kun-gzhi rnam-shes, Skt. alayavijnana, storehouse consciousness); while Gelug anuttarayoga tantra specifies it as a mental continuum of clear-light mind.
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The non-Gelug traditions agree with Gelug that only anuttarayoga tantra uses the subtlest level of mental activity, clear-light mind, for cognizing voidness.
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Let us keep to the classification scheme of general anuttarayoga and use merely the term clear-light mind for the subtlest level of mental activity.
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Rigpa, on the other hand, in its various facets, encompasses the clear-light level.
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Therefore, tantra practice in general includes, in its highest class, using a special level of mental activity for nonconceptually cognizing voidness – clear-light mind – although not all classes of tantra use this level.
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With complete stage practice, we work with the subtlest energy-system so that we actually do dissolve the grosser levels of mind and energy-wind and actually do access the subtlest clear-light level.
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However, the Kalachakra literature does speak repeatedly about an eternal, individual clear-light mind within each being.
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Therefore, illusory body is a more efficient method to unite with clear-light cognition of voidness than is conventional bodhichitta.
Conventional and Deepest Bodhichitta and the Two Truths in Anuttarayoga Tantra 2006
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It can only do so when it is the omniscient clear-light cognition of a Buddha.
Conventional and Deepest Bodhichitta and the Two Truths in Anuttarayoga Tantra 2006
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Although the non-Gelug traditions have similar visualizations elsewhere in sadhanas, practitioners approach the clear-light realization of voidness using other methods.
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