The Black Box World (47)

Therefore, when any dharma changes, the outer representation must change first, and then the changed outer representation is transmitted through the gross physical sense organ to the supreme faculty, thereby forming the inner representation. But since my hand cannot touch the outer representation of the book, how could I first cause the outer representation of the book to change, thereby inducing a change in the inner representation of the book? Take another example: when the six consciousnesses create the karma of killing a person, the six consciousnesses can only contact a person's inner representation, not the person's outer representation. So how do the six consciousnesses cause the person's outer representation to also cease? Moreover, it is the person's outer representation that ceases and is destroyed first, and only afterward can the person's inner representation subsequently cease or be destroyed. Because the inner representation derives from the outer representation and is manifested in dependence on the outer representation, it must be that the outer representation changes first, and only then can the inner representation follow and change accordingly. The great secret hidden here is left for those with the karmic affinity to investigate diligently; it is not something to be elaborated upon with much ink here.