Consciousness Is Neither Self Nor Belongs to Self

Answer: When the mind consciousness discerns a mental sense-object and finishes processing that content, it ceases on that mental sense-object. Under the direction of the manas, it arises to discern and process another one or two mental sense-objects, then ceases again, and arises once more elsewhere. In this way, the mind consciousness, following the grasping of the manas, constantly arises and ceases, without the slightest autonomy. Therefore, the mind consciousness is far too illusory and unreal; it is fundamentally not the self nor anything belonging to the self. Do not again take such a mind consciousness as the self.