Brief Discussion on Material Elements (Draft)

XX. Whether the Content of Recollection Belongs to the Image-Only Condition with Substance or without Substance

"Substance" refers to material dharmas formed by the four great seeds, which possess tangible obstruction. The substantial four great seeds constitute the five sense-objects. The image-only condition dependent on the five sense-objects is called the image-only condition with substance, while the image-only condition unrelated to the five sense-objects belongs to the image-only condition without substance. The sense-accompanying consciousness corresponds to the image-only condition with substance, whereas the solitary consciousness corresponds to the image-only condition without substance. Recollection certainly involves consciousness independently recalling past events; the corresponding dharma-object in the image-only condition does not involve the five sense-objects, thus it is the image-only condition without substance.