The small, medium, and great latent tendencies for listening are to be regarded as the seeds of the dharmakāya. Since they are the remedy for the ālaya-consciousness, they are not of the nature of the ālaya-consciousness. [In the sense of being a remedy,] they are something mundane, but since they are the natural outflow of the supramundane — the utterly pure dharmadhātu — they are the seeds of supramundane mind. 

-- 3rd Karmapa Rangjung Dorje