Are the Five Aggregates Within or Without the Eighth Consciousness?

The five aggregates are not within the eighth consciousness; then are they outside the eighth consciousness? What place is outside the eighth consciousness? Which dharma is not the eighth consciousness? Is there an outside to the eighth consciousness? What is outside? Is it space? Space is also within the eighth consciousness. What dharma exists outside the eighth consciousness?

Which dharma can exist apart from the eighth consciousness? If it cannot be separated from the eighth consciousness, can it be outside? Dharmas outside could be separate from the eighth consciousness, but what dharma can exist independently, apart from the eighth consciousness? The Shurangama Sutra states: All dharmas are but wondrous manifestations within the true mind.

Within the substance of the eighth consciousness, there is no... there is nothing... yet all dharmas do not depart from the eighth consciousness, nor are they adjacent to it. The eighth consciousness is called the One True Dharma Realm; all dharmas are within the One True Dharma Realm. They are not within the substance of the mind, for the substance of the mind is empty, devoid of anything, as stated in the Heart Sutra.