Lankavatara Sutra - part 18

The mind is a lens by which to experience Buddhahood, unproduced but witnessed in its productions. At this stage of teachings, the 8th consciousness or Alaya, is considered the repository of all that is discriminated and to be separated of. This, of course, obviates the question of “where” is the “I” that discriminates this separation? The later development of the 9th or Amala consciousness provides a sort of mental cushion for this conundrum, a place of “residence” for the non-instantiation of quiescent energy.