Fifty Verses on the Nature of Consciousness Part V

Thirty-One

Consciousness always includes 
subject and object. 
Self and other, inside and outside, 
are all creations of the conceptual mind.

Thirty-Two

Consciousness has three parts—
perceiver, perceived, and wholeness. 
All seeds and mental formations 
are the same.

Thirty-Three

Birth and death depend on conditions. 
Consciousness is by nature a discriminatory manifestation. 
Perceiver and perceived depend on each other 
as subject and object of perception.

Thirty-Four

In individual and collective manifestation, 
self and nonself are not two. 
The cycle of birth and death is achieved in every moment. 
Consciousness evolves in the ocean of birth and death.

Thirty-Five

Space, time, and the four great elements 
are all manifestations of consciousness. 
In the process of interbeing and interpenetration, 
our store consciousness ripens in every moment.

Thirty-Six

Beings manifest when conditions are sufficient. 
When conditions lack, they no longer appear. 
Still, there is no coming, no going, 
no being, and no nonbeing.

Thirty-Seven

When a seed gives rise to a formation, 
it is the primary cause. 
The subject of perception depends on the object of perception. 
This is object as cause.

Thirty-Eight

Conditions that are favorable or non-obstructing 
are supporting causes. 
The fourth type of condition 
is the immediacy of continuity.

Thirty-Nine

Interdependent manifestation has two aspects—
deluded mind and true mind. 
Deluded mind is imaginary construction. 
True mind is fulfilled nature.

Forty
Construction impregnates the mind with seeds of delusion, 
bringing about the misery of samsara. 
The fulfilled opens the door of wisdom 
to the realm of suchness.