14 Aggregate Crux
🧭Catalog of Aggregate Crux：14.1 Aggregate Arousal；14.2.0-6 Names of Annoyances；14.2.7-9 Bind and Cover；14.2.10-26 Waterfall；14.3 Numbers of Annoyances
Aggregate Crux, also known as Eros, which was translated in Chinese as “Love Sutra” and “Karma Sutra” by ancient Chinese, talks about the causes of bitter in Bitter Crux (cf. chapter 13). Karma means the three karmas of body, mouth, and intent. Body karma is the accumulation of physical behavioral habits, that is this flesh body. Oral karma is the accumulation of oral habits, that is this mouth speaking. Intentional karma is the accumulation of thinking habits, which is the mind thinkings. Aggregate means gathering, collection, is heart’s function, has three significances: able to collect, the being collected, and aggregate arousal. “Able to Aggregate”, means that heart is capable and continually collect all juristic seeds. What are juristic seeds? Such as the 100 laws in chapter 11 Tree of Life. “The being aggregated” means heart is those gathered seeds. “Aggregate Arousal” means that heart can arouse matured seeds into performances.
14.1 Aggregate Arousal
Aggregate Arousal, Sanskrit paṭicca-samuppāda, is definition of heart. This subsection first talks about an example of Aggregate Arousal, then talks about its four necessary factors.
14.1-1 Dust Instant Soil
The next text speaks of pure hallucination state, that is “solitary-head environment” (cf. section 11.4.5-3, and 12.2-3); starts without “bodily soil”, that is without bodily senses or feelings.
In the dimness, faint and hazy little-me (note 1) saw a stump like thing afar (2), thought: “what is that? Looks like a weathered tree stump!? (3; while little-me is watching, teleportation happens.)” Little-me stood near the dead tree stump on the hillside. At the same time, the environment became brighter (4). Little-I on the hillside saw clearly that it is (5) a dead tree indeed, thought, “what is this place?” Looked around. (This Dust-Instant-Soil world grows as little-me wish.) Little-I realized that I am on a hillside. The environment became clearer and clearer, the wind was blowing dry grasses, like waves were rippling, and there were rotten dead birds flying in the sky. Little-I saw a ruined house in the distance, thought: “what is that?” (6, teleportation, I came near the house.) I can see clearly; this is a temple. (The building of the temple becomes more and more clear; the light intensity was changing from dim to bright). Little-I looked around. (The surrounding environment of the temple is in the process of being formed; the light intensity changes from dim to bright). The door of the temple is closed; I thought: “what is it like inside?” (7, teleportation, I entered the temple.) The temple door closed automatically (8, teleportation), and I was in complete darkness.
Note 1: This "dimness" is "non-light", the meaning of stupidity and ignorance. The light in this case is internal light, which has the function of self-evidence, i.e., the light of enlightenment. Pre-consciousness, which the English-speaking world calls Eve-sense, always clings to the former thoughts that have withered, and thus has a weak self-function in the things that Eve-sense clings to. The “little me” is human along thoughts ego inside mind, Chinese as Fortune, also call as Great Strength God, Hindus as Brahmin, Islam Christian and ancient Egyptian as Abel (the child in fig. 14.1-3), Germanic culture as Magni, ancient Mexican as Quetzalcoatl (the baby in fig. 14.1-2).
The behaviors of preconsciousness (i.e., Eve-sense) is very similar to that of an inchworm, as shown in fig. 1. Inchworm’s hind feet always grab something, after the front feet are firmly grasped, the back feet follow. Eve-sense is like that, always grasping something, and which faded former thing has the function of “along thoughts ego”. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians and Mexicans used to hold or breastfeed Abel to indicate that the woman is Eve. Eve-sense is here, this place, the subjective; Adam-sense (i.e., the contaminated part of unconsciousness) is there, that place, the objectives, the objective environment, with no sign of life. God-sense (i.e., immaculate part of unconsciousness) is constant, nameless, innumerable, and quantity-less.
Preconsciousness is mind’s ever updating working platform, is intent-place, leaving a long trace of faded Abels behind, which is Seth. Seth is called “Translocation Body Views” (cf. section 11.4.4.1.4.6-1) in Buddhism, Sanskrit word is sakkāya-diṭṭh, the biblical as Seth, it is I in oral language. “Translocation" as in the case labeled points 3, 6, 7, and 8 are scene transitions.
Note 2, the Stump is a mutant fruit (cf. section 11.6.1), belongs to Adam-sense.
Note 3, instant translocation or teleportation a is instant scenery change, just as I instantly went from the darkness to the side of the dead tree stump on the hillside, (cf. section 12.1.7). The same is true of subsequent annotation 7, 8, and 9.
Annotation 4, what the environment becomes brighter, is enlightenment. This bright light is inner light, as opposed to the dim and unbright in annotation 1. This bright light has a Self-Evidence function, that is the function of the third quadrant of the Four Juristic Quadrants (see section 11.1 Juristic Quadrants)
Annotation 5, Is, is cognition; combined with the context, “Is” is the meaning of “tether, tethering life”.
Note 8, the darkness is “non-light”, is ignorance. That is, I was stuck again in the state where this case started.
Annotation 9, what does Dust Instant Soil mean? It is the immediate bodily feelings, because of the experience of the preceding paragraph case, I have grown in knowledge and in the external world, hence the name of the Instant Bodily Soil. And the word Mundane-World, in its original meaning, is between two times, so that the previous case constitutes a Dust Instant Soil World. The Three-Grand Great-Grand Worlds (Fig. 14.1-2) illuminated at the time of Buddha Shakyamuni's enlightenment are made up of one billion such dust instant soil worlds. The ancients called a thousand a small-grand, a million a medium-grand, and a billion a great-grand. The Three-Grand Great-Grand Worlds are read out, first reading one billion as three grands, and then knowing that it is a billion, a Great-Grand. When read together, it becomes Three-Grand Great-Grand Worlds, this classical psychology technical term now. In fact, the Three-Grand Great-Grand Worlds and the Great-Grand Worlds have the same meaning.
14.1-2 Four Necessary Elements
There are four necessary elements to Aggregate Arousal: the able to aggregate, the being aggregated, the equally unintermittent, the escalatory. Its empty set ∅ is fig. 14.1-2-2 (cf. section 15.1 on the After-All Emptiness).
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The Able to Aggregate is the core part of the subjective, is the cause of the Aggregate Arousal. Sage said that Eve-sense (that is preconsciousness) and Adam-sense (that is maculate part of unconsciousness) watching each other directly or through medias is the cause. It can also be understood as “ABLE as reason” (see 11.6.3 Warrior Usage Fruit). This ABLE is the along thoughts ego, Abel, in the previous example of “Dust Instant Soil”.
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The Being Aggregated, which is the objective, is of two kinds, Relative Objective and Stranger Objective. What is the Relative Objective? The environment, such as in the example above, is generated and supported by internal considerations, and without the internal considerations, that world of Dust Instant Soil would disappear. What is the Stranger Objective? If, although separate from the capable mind, that objective with the quality can generate and supporting the internal considerations, one should know that it is the Stranger Objective.
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Equally Unintermittent, the eight present senses and their heartland laws (see section 11.4.5 Sense Node), the later follow the front, self-classes are uninterruptedly and equitably succeeding, to have the Objective is born certainly. As in the above example, “think” fetches phenomena, “mean” distinguishes benevolence ferocity beauty and ugliness, Eve-sense quickly gives lives to the neighboring things, and they turn accordingly, harmonizing as one, growing a withered stump into a Dust Instant Soil World. Therefore, they are each other's Equally Unintermittent dependents. This element is the Equal Stream Fruit of Tree of life (see section 11.6.2).
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Escalatory Factors, such as a law that has the function of being powerful and can be either yielding to or contradicting to or non-obstructive of other laws. Although the first three elements also have the escalatory functions, the fourth element is said here to be in addition to the others, to show the difference between the four elements. There are many Escalatory Factors, but only twenty-two Escalatory Roots (see section 11.6.5 Escalatory Fruit of Tree of Life) are superior to the others.
Why then is this Escalatory Element necessary for the Aggregate Arousal? Aggregate Arousal in daily life must be accompanied by the Twelve Growth Places of the Tree of Life (see 11.3 Twelve Growth Places). The previous case is a state of Stillness, a pure conscious state, a hallucination. If one of the Twelve Growth Places is missing in the real-life aggregate-arousal, for example, if there is body-place missing, then the person may find that the earth's gravity has become smaller and the sun has become less bright and less blinding, just like the moon, in broad daylight. If there is a further deficiency, one may find that one's cow suddenly has the superpower of an Indian incense elephant and can fly; and then the alien abductions so often encountered by Americans may once again occur.
Posted Jun 20, 2024, 11:42 PM UTC