When engaging in any act, be it killing, stealing, doing life release or practicing generosity, although we cannot perceive these acts’ existence after completing them, certain energy will be stored in our lowest level of consciousness, which is alaya consciousness. “Alaya” is sound translation of Sanskrit, it means a store house. It can be likened to a hard drive of a computer and can store lots of information.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES