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How Does Mind Consciousness Cooperate with Manas in Contemplative Practice on the Five Aggregates?

When the mind consciousness engages in contemplative practice (vipaśyanā-caryā) on the five aggregates (pañca-skandha), the information from the contemplative practice is simultaneously transmitted to the manas. If the manas does not understand the first time, nor the second time, then over time it can come to understand and be influenced by the teaching, agreeing with the results of the mind consciousness's contemplative practice; this is the result of the manas activating its own unique capacity for deliberation (manasikāra) and judgment. If there is meditative concentration (samādhi), the manas can also, following the line of thought of the mind consciousness's contemplative practice and reasoning, deliberate on its own, or deliberate together with the mind consciousness, or deliberate independently. The more evidence the mind consciousness gathers and the more clearly it explains the principles, the more deeply the manas is influenced, and the more the manas is able to deliberate independently, thereby together with the mind consciousness jointly eradicating the view of self (satkāya-dṛṣṭi) and jointly realizing the fruits of the path.

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings
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