There is almost no doubt that there is a relationship between psychology and philosophy. Indeed, many people believe that philosophies related to and concerned with mind and thought are the precursors of modern psychology. Of course, most of these philosophies were decidedly Western, or popular in the West. However, the problem with our Western view of consciousness in philosophy and psychology is that often the way we view the conscious process leads to a so-called “infinite regression”. That is, if we see consciousness as one set of rules that guide our experiences in life, there must also be another set of rules that defines how we know when to use those rules, and so on. (Kurak 2001, 18-19). In this article I will try to show how we can turn to Buddhist principles to help us gain a better understanding of human consciousness. Because there are many different schools of Buddhism, each with different principles, there are also many different views on consciousness. First, we will turn to the “School of Consciousness Only,” also known as Yogacara Buddhism. According to the school of consciousness alone there are eight parts of consciousness. The five sensorial consciousnesses, those linked to the senses. There is the sixth consciousness, called the consciousness of the sensory center, the one that forms our conceptions. The seventh is called the thought center, the consciousness linked to will and reasoning. And the eighth consciousness, called store consciousness. Store consciousness basically “stores” our past experiences. Consciousness is in a constant state of change, the seed is constantly influenced by the inner flow of perceptions, and the seed itself influences perceptions (Chan 371). This line of thinking is very similar to the existing model of cognition and memory encoding. To be examined