11 Tree of Life
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 Mutant Fruit；6.2 Equal Stream Fruit；11.6.3 Warrior Usage Fruit；11.6.4 Off-is Fruit；11.6.5 Escalatory Fruit
Based on “Unified Compilation of Buddhism”, the author, I have integrated “Five Positions of 100 Laws” into Tree of Life.
11.1 Juristic Quadrants
Law, Dharma in Sanskrit, 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 aggregate 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 symbol of the Juristic Quadrants is the “Philosopher-Stone Navel” (shown as the red circle below Figure 11.1-3), which is said to be formed by the umbilical cord between Zeus and his father (Note: The umbilical cord between godfather and godson is shown in Figure 2). The implements in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are all called “Philosopher-Stone Taming-Demon Pestle”. The pestle in the hand of Zeus in Fig. 1 is formed by folding the last three Quadrants as the second quadrant. When folded, the four juristic quadrants become two; the first, Phenomenal Quadrant, is the Color Node (see Section 11.4.1), which includes the 11 color laws, and is therefore also called Color. The second quadrant, View Quadrant, includes the Acceptance Node, Think Node (see Section 11.4.2), Migration Node, and Sense Node, totaling 84 laws, and is called Name. Therefore, name and color are all laws. Name-Color is another name for the unconscious, can produce all laws and are all laws. It is the first juristic door to the Juristic Boundary.
Figures 4 and 5 show the “Thunder Drum-Urn Golden Hammer” of Thor (Great Sun Tathagata in Chinese Buddhism). Legend has it that Thor used this hammer to break the stone of human soul, designing Tanngnjóstr and Tanngrisnir (aka. Gold Boy and Jade Girl; see Section 10.9 Godly Trinity). The dagger in Figure 3 is the holy ghost of Thor, known as the Iron Dagger (Járnsaxa; see 15.3.6 Return of the King).
11.2 Four Big Seeds
The four elements, namely earth, water, fire, and wind, are the four seeds of the tree of life, also known as the four elements; Westerners call them the four basic elements of Theism. Seed is the meaning of cause, reason. Everything in the world is created by the four great seeds; how is this to be understood? It is understood by the fact that the flesh body and the external world are projections of the heart (i.e., mind), as in the case of a newborn baby with a visual acuity of only 20 centimeters or so, and that the world is nothing more than the happy sensations produced by eating milk urinating and defecating. As it grows, the body and the external world grow until it grows into the Three-Grand Great-Grand Worlds (see Chapter 13 and figure 11 ).
1. The metaphor of earth as a boundary
Man uses limits for thinking, i.e., people use boundaries for cognition, boundaries such as edges, tables, justice, etc. The boundaries are invisible, so Ancients used the earth as a metaphor for the boundaries. The mountains and the lands are the images of the boundaries. Capable of holding, nurturing all things is the function of the boundaries. Toughness is the physical nature of the boundaries. With the images of the earth as a metaphor for the boundaries, one can easily understand the five causal qualities of the boundaries, namely, birth, dependence, establishment, holding, and nourishment.
The boundaries mean seeds and the ability to hold. The meaning of seed is about the function of the unconscious that can give rise to all laws, i.e., each of the eighteen boundaries of laws is born from its own seed and has a different phenomenon. The meaning of being able to hold is about being able to hold the self-phenomenon of the law; that is, each of the eighteen boundaries of laws holds its self-phenomenon unperturbed and is therefore called a boundary.
2. Water is a metaphor for sense
In this way, senses have the great images of rivers, streams, lakes, seas, clouds, rain, etc. The nature of senses is like water, such as stickiness, attachment, fluidity, and so on. This Big Seed has flow and wetness as its physical nature, can assimilate as its function, and has the five causal qualities, namely, birth, dependence, establishment, holding, and nourishment.
3. Fire as a metaphor for the unconscious
The ancients often used fire as a metaphor for the unconscious; in this way, the unconscious took on the images of a fierce flame, a blazing sun, and red fires. Fire has warmth and heat as its physical nature, and the ability to ripen as its function. It is capable of ripening, as the sun ripening grain. The big seed, Fire, also has the five causal qualities of birth, dependence, establishment, holding, and nourishment.
4. Wind as a metaphor for the environment
The ancients used wind as a metaphor for the ever-changing environment, so the environment has the images of a swift and strong wind. The environment has the nature of easily drifting, the ability to grow as a function, and the five causal qualities of birth, dependence, establishment, holding, and nourishment.
Through these four analogies, there are what people call earth, water, fire, and wind, the four big seeds. These four big seeds are all conterminously memoryless. Conterminous, is saying that the four big seeds are all connected to the unconscious. Memoryless, is saying that people have no memory of the four big seeds and cannot be recalled. Everything in the world is made from the combination of these four big seeds. If there is a change in the Four Big Seeds, all things made according to them will change accordingly.
Posted Dec 1, 2024, 6:35 PM UTC