11 Tree of Life
🧭 Catalog of Layan’s Memoirs：1 Children Marriage Contract；2 Revelation；3 Flesh Eye Through；4 Youngster；5 Liaoning Branch；6 SYHP Housekeeping Bureau；7 Northeastern University；8 Death with Eyes Open；9 Middle Age；10 Fate Through；11 Tree of Life；12 Meditation；13 Bitter Crux；14 Aggregate Crux；15 Salvation Crux；16 Path Crux；17 Translation of Heart Sutra and Diamond Sutra；18 The Sun Stone
🌲Content of Life Tree：
11.1 Juristic Quadrants；11.2 Four Big Seeds；11.3 Twelve Growth Places
11.4 Five Nodes；11.4.1 Color Node；11.4.2 Acceptance Node；11.4.3 Think Node；11.4.4 Migration Node；11.4.4.1.4 Fundamental Annoyances；11.4.4.1.5 Following Annoyances；11.4.4.2 Noncorresponding Migration Laws；11.4.5 Sense Node
11.5 Four Foods Crux
11.6 Five Fruits：11.6.1 Variation Fruit；6.2 Equally Stream Fruit；11.6.3 Warrior Usage Fruit；11.6.4 Off-is Fruit；11.6.5 Escalatory Fruit
11.1 Juristic Quadrants
Law is nature law, based on the recurrence of phenomena, the ancients often used the analogy of track. All phenomena that have existed in the past, exist in the present, and will continue to exist in the future are laws, such as rivers, lakes, seas, flowers, birds, fish, insects, laws, morals, and principles of affairs, etc. All laws have four quadrants, the first quadrant is Phenomenal Quadrant, the second is View Quadrant, and third is Self-Evident Quadrant, the fourth is Proving Self-Evidence Quadrant. Law has the four kinds of quantity functions in heart, so there are these four Juristic Quadrants.
The first quadrant, Phenomenal Quadrant, is the objective phenomena, the subjective objects, such as color, sound, fragrance, taste, touch, and law, the six dusts. From the point of view of perception, the external world is a projection of one's heart (i.e., mind). Phenomenal Quadrant is a projection from the fourth Proving Self-Evidence Quadrant (i.e., the unconscious). This process of transforming external stimuli into phenomena is a function of the unconscious; we do not feel it; what we feel is the phenomena (i.e., the first Juristic Quadrants). The ancients used the person in the mirror when looking in the mirror to illustrate the Phenomenal Quadrant. Phenomena in the mirror and the person looking in the mirror share the same body.
The second quadrant, the View Quadrant, is the illuminated and clearly seeing, is the function of the aggregative heart’s transformation, clearly mirrored the objective phenomena.
The function of sense is discrimination, discernment, measurement. The second quadrant, View Quadrant illuminates the first quadrant, Phenomenal Quadrant, its fruit (i.e., result) of measurement is the third quadrant, Self-Evident Quadrant. And the third quadrant has function of sense’s self-body.
The fourth quadrant, Proving Self-Evidence Quadrant, is the temporary transformation of the heart's self-body, which can act to know the self-body. This fourth quadrant can evidence the third Self-Evident Quadrant, so it is called the Proving Self-Evidence Quadrant. Because the fourth quadrant is the projector of the first quadrant, the present quantity, i.e., the objective fact, therefore, the fourth quadrant does not need other quadrants to be proved.
The ancients used the example of "a tailor measuring cloth with a ruler" to illustrate these four quadrants. In this case, the cloth is what is measured, which is the First Quadrant. The process of measuring the cloth with a ruler is the second quadrant; the second quadrant is the able to measure. The data of the measurement is the third Self-Evidence Quadrant. After the tailor reads the measurement result, he verifies it again, realizing what he is doing, what the fourth Proving Self-Evidence Quadrant is. Because of the verifying action of the fourth quadrant, the third Self-Evident Quadrant learns of the fruit of measurement and proves itself.
In Buddhism, the four quadrants of a law are inseparable, that is, a law must have these four quadrants. If we fold the fourth and third quadrant of a law into the second quadrant, then four quadrants become two, the first Phenomenal Quadrant and the second View Quadrant. In Buddhism, the laws of Phenomenal Quadrant are known as the colors, i.e. the color node (cf. 11.4.1), and the laws in other three quadrants are also known as the names, i.e. the four colorless nodes of acceptance, think (cf. 11.4.2), migration, and sense, so that Names and Colors are all laws, and are often pictorially represented as Philosophers’ Stone Pestle (as in Fig. 11.1). Why is this thing so famous? Because the four juristic quadrants theory is known as Buddhist Hub, and “Name & Color” is known as the first juristic door of juristic boundary.
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Posted May 21, 2024, 1:56 PM UTC