Three bodies and four intelligences
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3_ eOAZ2H2buSAqIsAJni7Q
One
There are two kinds of practice,
Self cultivation and self nature-cultivation.
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Self cultivation is an effort,
Self nature cultivation is a kind of rest.
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Self cultivation consumes energy,
Self nature cultivation does not consume energy or accumulate energy relative to it.
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What is self?
Self is a kind of “I” consciousness / concept / subjective sense of “I”, which is a strong, firm and stable illusion produced by mind differentiation and generation.
Self nature is another name of mind. Mind itself is self nature.
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When you meditate there,
Are you meditating with self or self nature?
Do you feel rested or are you trying?
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When you feel like you’re resting, not trying,
You are practicing with your own nature, not with yourself.
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Listening is just the mind itself, not I,
Seeing is just the mind itself, not I,
Feeling is just the mind itself, not I,
All the activities of seeing, hearing and perceiving are the application of the mind itself, not I,
This is the practice of self nature and the practice of rest.
Two
Self nature has four basic natural functions
The wisdom of the great circle mirror, the wisdom of equality, the wisdom of wonderful observation, and the wisdom of harmony.
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There is no identity, but the ability and awareness of the mind that can identify with identity is the great circle mirror wisdom.
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The ability and characteristics of the mind that does not take or give up all kinds of dharmas, but only reflects and perceives them, is the ability and characteristics of the mind, that is, the wisdom of equality. Equality wisdom is not the result of practice and training, but the constant use of discovery. To say that the practice of equality wisdom is the process of practice and habit of using it constantly.
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The wonderful observation of wisdom is the process of naming things by the heart, and before seeing how things become individuals and individuals because of their heart; the wonderful observation wisdom is to see the two faces of things with and without forms, the boundaries and illusions of the phases, and the real situation of the non forms; the wonderful observation wisdom is the process of witnessing life and things’ legal reporting at one glance. The natural ability and function of clearing the mind is called the wonderful observation wisdom.
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This is to understand, to see, to use, and so on.
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The four intelligences are the natural functions and characteristics of self nature. What I call self-cultivation is the process of understanding and witnessing, developing and stabilizing the mind.
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Ancient virtuous and capable persons said that “the circle in the three bodies and four intelligences”, the direct experience and application of this kind of three body and four wisdom is what I call self-cultivation.
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When you enter into this kind of practice, you witness that the self appears in the form of illusion in self nature. You understand that the rest of the heart is the cultivation. You understand that the so-called life of Buddhas or the practice of ten way Bodhisattvas are just developing and exerting the natural functions of the mind or self nature.
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In the three body four wisdom mind body, see, practice and rest, self and self nature, practitioner, practice, practice, enter into the role and witness of this self nature.
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