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The 21-day retreat, opening in June with the theme “the Buddha’s footprints,” is a rare and precious opportunity to go deeply into the practice. Although anyone can register, the capacity to absorb is different: “a big tree absorbs more rain, a small tree less.” For monastics, Dharma teachers, and resident practitioners, the retreat is ten times deeper than shorter retreats, even though it is only three times longer, helping to nourish and strengthen the mind of practice. Rain and cloud are two interdependent phenomena; in the cloud there is rain, in the rain there is cloud, just as in mountains, rivers, trees, and grass—manifestations of impermanence.
Consciousness is not a thing but a process, likened to a movie: countless moments following one another create a continuous stream. Alaya or store consciousness (alaya-vijnana) is the storehouse containing all seeds; it is both the subject of storing (the act of storing) and the object of storing (the content being stored). There are three kinds of manifestation (three types of manifestation of consciousness): 1. vipāka (maturation)—transformation, ripening; 2. manas (the seventh consciousness); 3. vijñapti (perception)—the sixth consciousness and the five sense consciousnesses, when a “click” brings new data onto the screen of mind consciousness.
The three terms upadi (appropriation), sthana (location), and vijñapti (manifestation) in the Thirty Verses are now translated as “it is not possible to know the manifestation of appropriation and location,” instead of listing them in parallel. At the end of the Dharma talk, Thay proposed organizing a joint retreat with neuroscientists and psychologists in the next two years to introduce Buddhist psychology, while also learning about the brain and consciousness.