Multiplicity

1. New Creation (Multiplicity) in Samsāra
According to the Chinese philosophy, everything has both the yin and the yang
aspects. Yin and yang are actually complementary but opposing forces interacting
to form a whole greater than either separate part; thus bringing forth a dynamic
system existing in harmony. The visual representation of this concept is well
depicted in the Taijitu symbol or the loosely referred to as yin-yang symbol.
Literally, Tai-ji means supreme ultimate – that represents an insightful reality of
the dependent nature i.e. highlighting the many natural dualities such as female and
male, dark and light, low and high, cold and hot, water and fire, life and death, etc.
Whenever one quality reaches its peak, it will naturally begin to transform into the
opposite quality. The communion of the two gives birth to things. Yin and yang
transform each other – just like an undertow in the ocean, every advance is
complemented by a retreat, and every rise transforms into a fall. Generally, yin is
associated with water, earth, moon, femininity, night time, etc. and is characterised
as slow, soft, yielding, diffuse, cold, wet, and passive. Whereas, by contrast, yang is
associated with fire, sky, the sun, masculinity, day time, etc. and is characterised
as fast, hard, solid, focused, hot, dry, and aggressive. The classic principle in
effect: ‘Yin creates Yang and Yang activates Yin.’
If one refers to the cycle of Dependent Origination, manas that unfolds against the
backdrop of consciousness (preliminary) is an architect or a designer that
activates mind and body creations. Mind and body are simply two aspects of the
same thing. Manas would vibrate in a certain unique frequency pattern – a wave of
collated high and low vibrations. This blueprint of vibrations would subsequently
bring forth a conflation of mind and body. The principle in effect: the lower the
frequency, the slower the vibration; the higher the frequency, the faster the
vibration. Slower vibration would lead to the body and the sense bases formation
and faster vibration would lead to the mind formation. Collectively, it brings about
a new life existence with a unique individuality that would not allow the disruption
by any kind of external interference; thus it maintains a self-identity. In other
words, mind and body are present in every created thing as one integrated whole.
Even an atom has a kind of mind that is unique or individualised. The nucleus of
the atom, around which electrons vibrate in standing waves, constitutes the
atom’s individuality. As a result, one atom distinguishes from another atom – just
as one person is different from another person or as one thing is different from
another thing.
Nevertheless, the mind is comprised with two terms i.e. prevailing consciousness
and subtle consciousness. Both the prevailing and the subtle mind

2. consciousnesses would arise in the sentient beings but for other things, merely the
subtle mind consciousness would arise. In addition, it is the mind, the
consciousness of individuality, which holds together the atoms and molecules as
one integrated body in a lifetime. Scientifically, the atoms are held together by
covalent chemical bonds but the synergies of it would give rise to the mind, the
consciousness of individuality. For general understanding, subtle mind
consciousness does not consume as much energy as prevailing mind
consciousness. Subtle mind consciousness can process and store information
without a lot of work or the intervention of prevailing mind consciousness. In other
words, subtle mind consciousness could operate in the absence of prevailing mind
consciousness with the least of energy consumption on 24 hours/day and 365
days/year - this would mean a plenty of energy reserves for prolonging the
lifespan of a body in a lifetime.
In fact, for over 90% of the time in a lifespan, the body is administered by subtle
mind consciousness and it simply operates like a radar detector – sensing all
spectrums of vibrational frequencies from the surroundings and across the time
stream (past, present and future). As such, one would notice that an enlightened
subtle mind consciousness would operate like a long range radar detector which is
highly luminous and vigilant to any development of circumstances and surpassing
time.
When one has reached the maturity of a lifespan, the mind and body would go
through a dying process, inevitably. And the first type of consciousness to depart
the body would be the prevailing mind consciousness. In the sentient beings, the
prevailing mind consciousness that bonds strongly the atoms and the molecules
together would die out and evolve into other energies concurrently. This incidence
would lead to an impulse occurrence with a demonstration of a final burst of
energy nearing the moments of death. Subsequently, the segregating process
would conquest with most of the subtle mind consciousness departing the death
body.
For an ignorant being, during a disintegrating process, the elements of prevailing
consciousness or so-called the ‘chain of consciousness’ would die out and the
force of Ignorance (an outward tendency force) would overcome the force of
Awakening (an inward tendency force). The elements of subtle consciousness
would then liberate into fragments. The amount of liberated fragments is very
much dependent on the level of Ignorance or Awakening within the being. And for
an ignorant being, the level of Ignorance would surpass the level of Awakening and
this would mean the intensity of Ignorance is higher than the intensity of
Awakening. A higher intensity of Ignorance would mean a higher intensity of

3. becoming. A higher intensity of becoming would mean a higher amount of liberated
fragments. On the other hand, for an awakened being, the amount of liberated
fragments is much lesser than an ignorant being because there is lower intensity of
Ignorance as compared with the intensity of Awakening. Also, the dispersion of
liberated fragments is more confined and restricted to much fewer new individuals.
Last of all, during segregating process, sense consciousness and the lingering
subtle mind consciousness would evolve into other energies concurrently with the
body decomposing process. At the end of the day, the fragmented subtle mind
consciousness with some retained subtle information within the elements of subtle
memory would sustain freedom of sorts and waiting for the next aligning process
and the new balanced phenomena to arise, thus depicting the continuous flow or
repeating cycle of birth, life, death and re-birth - known as samsāra.