11.4.1 Color Node
Buddhism defines matter in terms of the color that the root of the eye perceives, and color is the meaning of transformation and hindrance. Transformation is change, meaning that both the physical body and the external world are transformations and projections of the mind. Hindrance is obstruction, as a hand can hinder another hand, and a road surface can obstruct a wheel from sinking into the ground.
One should know that the word "color" in Buddhism is equivalent to "matter" in dialectical materialism; moreover, the golden boy and jade girl (i.e., Adam and Eve) who became Buddhas live in the “color finalization sky” in the Fourth Meditation Sky (as in Fig. 11.4-5), what does that mean? The concept of color is important. In Illustration 11.4, the painter Mexico (a.k.a. Tlaloc, active around 1325 C.E.) uses two color bars (see fig. 5, 6) to emphasize that the concept of color is important. Also, the concept of color is specifically hinted at in the Diamond Sutra, so don't get the meaning of the word color wrong or replace it with another word.
Color Node is the collective name of these 11 color laws: eye root, ear root, nose root, tongue root, body root, color environment, sound environment, incense environment, taste environment, touch environment, and the laws assimilated by juristic place.
11.4.1-1 Five Roots
Eye root, ear root, nose root, tongue root, and body root, when these five roots are in contact with its corresponding dust, the corresponding senses can be generated, such as the eye root touches the color dust where the eye senses can be born, so the eye, ear, etc. five are named as the five roots.
11.4.1-2 Color Environment
Color is objective of eye-root, is being aggregated target environment by eye-senses; eye-root meets color environment, eye-senses arouse. There are three types of colors: manifest colors, form colors, and indicative colors.
Manifest colors are turquoise, yellow, red, and white.
Form colors are the differences in the sublocations of the mixing and matching of manifest colors, such as long, short, square, round, thick, thin, high, low, straight, non-straight, light, shadow, bright, dark, cloud, smoke, dust, fog, distinctive color, and empty.
Indicative colors are the actions of sentient beings, such as fetch, renunciation, bending, stretching, walking, standing, sitting, and lying.
11.4.1-3 Sound Environment
Sound is the objective of ear-root, is being aggregated target environment by ear-senses. When the ear-root encounters a sound, ear-senses arouse, such as conch, drum, dance, song, laugh, play, woman, man, windy woods, clear, unclear, meaningful, unmeaningful, the lower the middle and the upper, river, fighting, clamor, sermon, discussion & resolution, agreeable, unagreeable, and neither agreeable nor unagreeable, etc.
11.4.1-4 Incense Environment
Incense is the objective of nose-root, is being aggregated target environment by nose-senses. When nose-root encounters incense, nose-senses arouse, such as good incense, ferocious incense, equal incense (i.e., incense of neither good nor ferocious), distinctive incense, combinable incense, mutable incense, etc.
11.4.1-5 Taste Environment
Taste is the objective of tongue-root, is being aggregated target environment by tongue-senses. When tongue-root meets taste environment, tongue-senses arouse, such as bitter, sour, sweet, pungent, salty, mild, agreeable, disagreeable, neither agreeable nor disagreeable, flavor, combinable taste, and mutable taste, etc.
11.4.1-6 Touch Environment
Touch is the heartland law Touch’s first quadrant Phenomenal Quadrant, is the objective of body-root, is being aggregated target environment by body-senses. When body-root meets touch environment, body-senses arouse, such as smoothness, astringency, lightness, heaviness, softness, warmth, urgency, coldness, hunger, thirst, satiety, strength, inferior, boredom, itchiness, stickiness, sickness, old age, death, fatigue, idleness, courage, and so on.
11.4.1-7 Laws Assimilated by Juristic Place
The juristic-place is preconsciousness, intent-root, Eve-sense; laws assimilated by juristic place is objectives of intent-root. Pre-consciousness is the working platform of heart, but it has no image of its own, it is like the scene of an accident; wherever there is something going on, there is the scene; hence Intent Place. Intent-senses arise wherever intent-root encounters juristic dust, which is the juristic place, so Buddhism refers to intent-root and the juristic dust collectively as “laws assimilated by juristic place”. “Laws assimilated by juristic place” is intent-senses relying on intent-root to aggregate, such as (1) extremely abstract colors, (2) distinctive colors, (3) colors induced by acceptance (4) colors from pervasively abstractions, (5) colors arising from self-sufficiency.
11.4.1.7-1 Extremely Abstract Colors
“Extremely abstract color” means the color law is highly simplified and abstracted. In the process of dealing with objective things, human brain always simplifies the objective objects autonomously, and extracts all kinds of default models, such as woman, man, butterfly, tree, and so on. The default models are “extremely abstract colors”, then used to recognize other individuals of the same kind. For example, when we see an individual woman, we might describe her as having big eyes, a high nose beam, tall, and a bit thin. These descriptions are the characteristics that human brain picks up by comparing the objective person with the default woman model in its own thinking mechanism, to recognize the objective individual woman, or even all women.
In this case, the default woman model is the definition of woman, i.e., Goddess. Human brain creates other women through adding traits to the default woman model, and so on. All individual women are derived from Goddess, which is saying Goddess is the seed of woman, give birth to other women. Similarly, we can conclude that the male god is the seed of the man, which can give birth to all similar men; the snake god is the seed of snake, which can give rise to other snakes; tree god is the seed of tree, which can generate many trees, and so on.
In real life there are people who look like God and Goddesses, and they are possible to have a nature like that of a god and goddess. What does God look like? Modern psychology describes this kind of person as “someone who can hide in a crowd”, for example, he looks like this, and you don't know him well. He runs in front of you, and you chase after him. There are a few people on the side of the road, he turns around and stands in the middle of them, then you cannot find him.
The preceding passage shows that God's appearance, without features, is memoryless. You see him, know that he is a man, and that there is some familiarity about him; but after you leave him, you soon cannot remember what he looks like.
Buddhist scriptures describe goddess like this: neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, neither black nor white, eyes neither big nor small, nose bridge neither high nor low, body temperature warm in winter and cool in summer, doesn’t laugh doesn’t speak, laughs first before she wants to speak. When a guest comes to her home, she greets at front, enters house behind; after entering the house, sits down the last and stands up the first.
Why does goddess always laugh!? Author me believes that a happy or joyful Eve is a goddess, and a sad or weeping Eve is a misfortune. In addition, the appearances of goddesses may vary according to ethnicities, regions, and historical periods. Readers can imagine that the appearance of Chinese goddesses would be different from that of Arabian goddesses.
11.4.1.7-2 Distinctive Colors
Distinctive Color is apparently different color law. It was said earlier that the heart (i.e., mind) will autonomously abstract and simplify things, and it will use very different colors to render the edges of things in sketching out abbreviated environments, such as grey where the sky meets the earth, which represents emptiness, absence; and dark colors at the interstices of things, which represent distinctions or boundaries of things. In meditation, the unconscious uses turquoise, yellow, red, and white to render the environment, outline the sides of things, and other different effects. Those all are Distinctive Colors.
11.4.1.7-3 Colors Induced from Acceptances
Eye-senses, ear-senses, nose-senses, tongue-senses, body-senses, and intent-senses all have bitter, laugh, and equal acceptances, on what laws are born are called “colors induced from acceptances”, such as the lessons learned and so on. Another example, the wedding ceremony will give the bride and groom a lot of feelings that they will remember for the rest of their lives; this insight and feeling will bind them to take up their responsibilities as husband and wife from then on.
Again, after one studies Buddhism and accepts the Four Victorious Cruxes (cf. Chapters 13 to 16), one keeps practicing them, and at the point of success, a man receives Man Precepts, and a woman receives Woman Precepts. The symbol for both men's and women's precepts are the ring. In this way, both the male and female precepts are “colors induced from acceptances”. The man precepts are also known as golden armor, also known as golden body, also known as 3,000 majesties and 84,000 enchantments (as in 11.4.1.7-3-3, which is the Mexican god of rain, Tlaloc, Adam). Woman precepts are also known as golden armor, woman's skin, cloak of invisibility, and 500 majesties 108,000 charms (as in 1, which is the Egyptian Eve; cf. Section 16.2).
11.4.1.7-4 Colors Aroused from Pervasively Abstractions
The colors that arise from the universal reckoning is then summarized in theories, such as the theory of contradiction, class struggle, the laws of natural and social sciences, and so on. Of course, many of them are wrong, such as being believed due to many arguments.
11.4.1.7-5 Colors Born from Self-sufficiency
Self-sufficiency is a philosophical term, in Buddhism this state is referred to as Stillness, so the “colors born of self-sufficiency” are also called “still-fruit colors”. The four types of Stillness (see Section 16.3) that are referred to in Buddhism are, in the narrow sense, Stillness of Sagely Hold, Stillness of Aggregating Fortune, Stillness of Bravely Practice, Stillness of Mahayana Light. As a result of these victorious stillness, the happiness of daily life increases, and the world becomes new day by day; this is how “colors born of self-sufficiency” is said to be achieved.
Illustration 11.4.1.7-5 shows Egyptian Eve demonstrating how to practice that four victorious stillness. The “four meditations eight stillness” in Chapter 12 of this book are also Stillness, and all that is said therein is “colors born of self-sufficiency”; but reader should know that those states are hallucinations (trances), that is, certain factors are missing from the “Aggregate Arousal (cf. Section 14.1)”.
Posted May 24, 2024, 12:00 PM UTC