[Buddha-l] Fsat Mnifdlunses?

[Mike Austin]

Dan Lusthaus <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> writes

"Almost. Recognizing that karma arises from ignorance, and ignorance is
mental makes one a Yogacara. That is what vijnapti-matra means. It does 
NOT mean that your mind creates the actual world. It means what you take 
to be the world is a product of your mind. I trust you understand the 
difference."

Yes, this much I understand. Where I get confused is that one may have a 
view (intellectually) that one exists in dependence on an 'actual' world 
while, being ignorant in one's apprehension,  one substitutes constructs 
for this 'actual' world.  I don't see how this is necessarily limited to 
the Yogacara viewpoint.

The purpose of posting my jumbled paragraph was to show the discrepancy, 
on several levels, between what is constructed and what 'is'.  On a more 
shallow level, one can recognise interdependence of text appearing as an 
incorrect picture and concepts which interpret/correct those pictures in 
an attempt to 'get at' what is real.  If I were to suggest that there is 
nothing to 'get at' apart from one's own projections, then that would be 
Yogacara. OK? As I have not suggested that, the same example could serve 
just as well as, for example, Middle Way. Am I making any sense here, or 
is this just tantamount to another jumbled paragraph?

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin