Aalaya and Neutral awareness

[Daniel Arraes]

Can one say that, according to Dzogchen, Aalaya (kun-gzhi) and the neutral awareness (shes-pa-lung-ma-bstan) are the same thing?

[Malcolm]

Can one say that, according to Dzogchen, Aalaya (kun-gzhi) and the neutral awareness (shes-pa-lung-ma-bstan) are the same thing?

No, they are different. The ālaya is ignorance.

[krodha]

Can one say that, according to Dzogchen, Aalaya (kun-gzhi) and the neutral awareness (shes-pa-lung-ma-bstan) are the same thing?

No, they are different. The ālaya is ignorance.

I've seen ālaya roughly translated to (or said to represent) a sort of storehouse or warehouse consciousness, is it due to this notion that it is essentially ignorance?

[Daniel Arraes]

Can one say that, according to Dzogchen, Aalaya (kun-gzhi) and the neutral awareness (shes-pa-lung-ma-bstan) are the same thing?

No, they are different. The ālaya is ignorance.

What type of ignorance: innate or imputing?

[Malcolm]

Can one say that, according to Dzogchen, Aalaya (kun-gzhi) and the neutral awareness (shes-pa-lung-ma-bstan) are the same thing?

No, they are different. The ālaya is ignorance.

What type of ignorance: innate or imputing?

Imputing since it is afflicted.