[MD] understanding pattern

[MarshaV]

"We also build up an image and an idea, and a deep-seated attachment to, an equally symbolic sense of “self” which can experience and enjoy these apparently independent objects and which seems to possess equally independent, intrinsic existence. We imaginatively create a locus of subjective experience, an enduring referent to the notions of self and “I” with which we can identify and hold as our own. We imagine that we actually are an enduring subject which exists independently of the external objects around it, which it can possess and enjoy. Our entire world of experience is experienced in reference to this self-wrought self. Man, the “self-making” crea- ture, constructs the subject of his own existence which may dwell within his self-constructed home. 

"These parallel processes of the reification of object and subject constitute the main target of the Buddhist (and particularly the Yogacara) critique of ordinary, worldly consciousness."

       (Waldron, William S., 'THE BUDDHIST UNCONSCIOUS')
        http://www.misterdanger.net/books/Buddhism%20Books/The%20buddhist%20unconscious.pdf