Korea Journal of Buddhist Studies 불교학연구 ISSN:1598-0642(Print)

Our daily knowledge or even scientific knowledge is always differentiating in nature - distinguishing this from that, being from non-being, good from bad. And the basic differentiation is between subject and object, in other words, between self and non-self, I and the world. But Yogacara-Buddhism finds such a differentiating grounded upon atman-adhesion and dharma-adhesion, and tries to arrive at adhesion-freed, non-differentiating wisdom beyond of all kinds of differentiating. Based on the theory of manifestation of the mind (the 8th consciousness: alaya-vijnana), I and the world are explained as the two manifested parts of the mind, namely the seeing-part(見分) and the seen-part(相分). The mind manifests itself and is called the self-proving-part(自證分), which continuously divides itself into two parts. In this paper it is argued, that non-differentiating wisdom in Yogacara- Buddhism is nothing else than the intuitional knowledge of self, without any objectifying of self. And this intuitional activity, which confirms the self-proving-part, is called the proving-self-proving-part(證自證分). In this intuition the revealed self is the true-self(眞如), where the knowing self and the known self are not differentiated, so it is called non-differentiating wisdom. And this spiritual wisdom of self is just what we try to accomplish through the meditative revolution.