15.1.2 Fruit of Intelligence and Gnosis
The previous section Nirvana talks after attaining liberation, the body is relaxed like a child's, with little feeling. The Fruit of Intelligence and Gnosis talks about the Buddha's intellectual attainment and worldview, which has three meanings: Achievement of Seeds, Achievement of Seeds’ performances, and Achievement of Self-Sufficiency. Seed Achievement says that Mahasattvas on the eighth land and above, that is Great True Man, that is Buddha, already possess the seeds of all intelligence and gnosis. The Achievement of Seeds’ performances means that in life, Mahasattvas can use the wisdom of God and Buddha to deal with problems and accidents without using his brain very much, but he can look deeply into the essence of the problem and act with foresight and thoroughness. Self-sufficiency Achievement means that Mahasattvas have the tree of life in his or her chest, and his or life is self-sufficient and leisurely. Next, we will talk about the wisdom of Buddha from the perspective of the three bodies and the four intelligences.
15.1.2-1 Three Bodies
In addition to physical appearance, body also means the accumulation of wisdom and fortune.
(1) Self-Nature Body, Tang Tripitaka said, it is true immaculate juristic boundary of Buddhas, is the basis for conversion and equality, is silent without any phenomena, is without any dramatic theses, is with boundless true and constant fortune and virtue, is equal factuality nature of all laws, that is self-nature, also known as Juristic Body. What is the Self-Nature Body? Because its non-obstacle property is like that of void, and its nature corresponds to empty, the ancients often used the ten-direction empty of east, west, south, north, up, and down as a metaphor for its image, therefore, Buddhism got an alias from this, Empty Door, which is also called None the Second Door.
(2) Body of Acceptance-and-Usage, Tang Tripitaka said, it has two types, self acceptance-and-usage body, and others acceptance-and-usage body. Self Acceptance-and-Usage Body means that the Buddhas have gone through “Three A-Monk Index-Catastrophes” and accumulated immeasurable fortunes and virtues to form a perfectly round immaculate-constant pervasive color body, lucidly succeeding, as far as the future of the constant self-enjoyment of the vast juristic laugh. Others Acceptance-and-Usage Body is saying that by Equality Intelligence, Buddhas manifest delicately wonderful immaculate fortune-and-virtue body, reside in immaculate land, exhibit great divine power for crowds of eighth-through-tenth land Mahasattvas, turn the juristic wheel to correct direction, solve crowds of suspicion webs, to have them enjoy great vehicle juristic laugh.
What is the Self Acceptance-and-Usage Body? It consists of Correct Body, which is the Buddha's physical body when he or she is in the world, and Retribution Body, which is the utensils he uses, the house he lives in, and lands, mountains, rivers, and so on, where he lives; and the Four Cruxes are his knowledges when he is in the world. What is the Others Acceptance-and-Usage Body? The Buddha collected and annotated his life stories and what he learned into sutras, which have been passed on to future generations for thousands of years, and juristic vessels, temples, statues, etc.
(3) Convert Body, Tang Tripitaka said, by establishing-affairs intelligence, Buddhas transform along categories, dwell in immaculate lands and maculate lands, expediently preach to the Bodhisattvas and other living beings, have them all gain benefits and laughs accordingly.
What is the Convert Body? A body obtained by conversion and change of nature. Among this, Mutant Nature is sum of Know and Annoyance of a sentient being. Buddha’s Convert Bodies are such as Monks Nuns and laymen laywomen, temples, statues, and juristic vessels, etc. and the kinds of bodies also exist among such as asura interest, hungry ghost interest, and livestock interest, etc.
15.1.2-2 Four Intelligences
(1) Great Round Mirror Intelligence, also known as Intelligence of All Manifestation. Tang Tripitaka said: “this heart has not any discriminations, and its objects and behaviors are too subtle to know. It can show all phenomena as they really are, and the natural phenomena displayed are immaculate, free from any contamination. The perfectly virtuous heart can hold all seeds, give birth to bodily soils and intelligent images continually to the exhaustion of future, like a great round mirror, presents crowds of images.”
What is the Great Round Mirror Intelligence? Buddha experienced three A-Monk Index-Catastrophes, can perceive all phenomena of the Three-Grand Great-Grand Worlds. Readers can understand it from the cognitive abilities of newborns, primary school students, to college students. Buddha has gone through the Three A-Monk Index-Catastrophes of cultivation and study to fulfilled perfection, is able to comprehend any phenomena in the Three-Grand Great-Grand Worlds (see figs. 15.1.2-2-1 through 22; cf. chap. 13, Bitter Crux).
This illustration was painted by Mexico (shown in Figure 40; circa 1325 CE), also known as Black Tezcatlipoca. The Nahuatl word for "Black Tezcatlipoca" means "smoking black obsidian mirror". Illustrations 1 through 22 are manifestations of his own karma, which was present in the Mexico’s unconsciousness, so that his mind was able to manifest the Three-Grand Great-Grand Worlds as they are. Illustration 39 shows him thinking this staff (i.e., Illustrations 1 through 22) when he was a young man, on his way falling into hell. This picture absorbs the essence of the creations of the Germanic God Thor, the Greek God Zeus, and the Islamic God Allah, as well as those created by the primogenitors of Chinese, the Yellow Emperor and Conch Ancestor; it can be said to be a collection of the best of the world's cultures. Then why do many people say that ancient Mexican culture is a cult? Because Mexico is a "smoking obsidian mirror": the benevolent see the benevolent, the wise see the wise, mud blood and filthy blood people see the devils only.
(2) Intelligence of Equal Nature, also known as Non-Discrimination Intelligence, Tang Tripitaka said: “this heart observes all laws, including self and other sentient beings, all are equal; constantly corresponds with great sorrowfulness, along being laughed by sentient beings, manifests differences of bodily soils and images, is uncommon dependence (annotation 1) for Wonderful Observation Intelligence, is where Non-Dwell Nirvana establishes, one taste continues to the exhaustion of the future.”
Annotation 1: This intelligence is talking about the preconscious, and preconscious-ness is the working platform for eye-sense, ear-sense, nose-sense, tongue-sense, body-sense, and intent-sense; generally speaking, the preconscious only serves one of the first six senses at a time, so the equal-nature intelligence is uncommon dependence for Wonderful Observation Intelligences which are talking of the eye-sense, ear-sense, etc.
(3) Intelligence of Wonderful Observation, also known as Retrospective Intelligence, according to Tang Tripitaka, is a heart that is capable of visualizing the self-phenomena and common phenomena, turns without hindrances, assimilate boundless generally hold doors of stillness, as well as the treasures of fortune and virtue that have occurred; in the great congregation, it can manifest infinite differences in roles, and all can be at self-sufficiency; it rains the juristic rains, severs all doubts, to have sentient beings all obtain benefits and laughs.
Illustration 15.1.2.2-3-1 is the primogenitors of Mexican nationality (formed around 1325 AD), the two-body God Mexico (i.e., Illustration 2) and Chalchiuhtlicue (i.e., Illustration 3) with Quetzalcoatl (i.e., Abel) in hand.
(4) Achievement Making Intelligence, also known as Intelligence of Establishing Affairs, Tang Tripitaka said: “in order to profit and please sentient beings, the heart manifests all kinds of bodily oral and intentional karmas in ten directions to achieve Original Will what should be done.”
The Original Will is the Four Great Vows made by the Bodhisattva in the First Bodhisattva Land (see Section 16.1). The author of this book believes that the Four Fearlessness best exemplify the power of the Intelligence of Success.
(A) The Fearlessness of Correct Equality Light, in which Buddha explicitly stated in the public that I am an All-Wise Man without fear.
(B) Fearlessness of Permanently without Leakage, Buddha said explicitly in the public that I have severed all my annoyances, without fears.
(C) Fearlessness in speaking of the Juristic Obstacles, Buddha spoke in the public about the Muddle Karma and Bitterness, without fears.
(D) Fearlessness of the Paths to End Bitter, Buddha says in the public that the right paths to the end of suffering, such as precepts, stillness, and gnosis, is fearless.
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