Manas in Correspondence with Karmic Seeds

The number of the seven great seeds is fixed and unvarying, although they cannot be counted. The tathāgatagarbha uses these many fixed seeds to transform and generate all dharmas; when a dharma ceases, the seeds all return to the tathāgatagarbha, and then arise again in other dharmas, transforming and generating other dharmas. The seeds on a dharma arise and cease instant by instant and return; all dharmas arise, cease, and change moment by moment, and are not permanent and unchanging; therefore they are impermanent.

The manas corresponds with karmic seeds, but the manas's wisdom does not need to be drawn out by manifesting it from the seeds; the wisdom is always corresponding with the manas, which is to say the manas always possesses wisdom. For example, once we have learned how to cook, at any time in this life, whenever we encounter the conditions for cooking, we will cook; this skill has always been stored in the manas. The dharmas that the manas has been habituated to have always been kept in the mind; He has always understood them, so His wisdom is always carried along, without needing to specifically go to the tathāgatagarbha to draw out seeds, yet He has always been corresponding with the seeds.