 Karma also provides the answer to the question of how an unreal concept can be stable in a changing mind, and across references to distinct, changing entities. The answer is that concepts are no more stable than the “self” is a real, stable entity. Still, due to karma, we have certain tendencies to experience the world in similarly-patterned modes. Through Buddhist practice, it is possible to overcome these; through Buddhist epistemology, it is possible to understand their erroneous yet beneficial applications. This expresses a version of the Buddhist karmic causal theory of meaning that has been noted in Yogācāra thought (see Gold 2006 and Tzohar 2017a, 2017b).