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07 May 2020    Thursday     1st Teach Total 2327

The Meaning of Sentient and Insentient Beings Together Perfecting the Wisdom of All Aspects

"Together perfecting the wisdom of all seeds" means that wisdom is perfect and unobstructed, that consciousness is transformed into wisdom, and one ultimately attains buddhahood. "Sentient beings" refers to sentient living beings. When sentient beings attain buddhahood, the five-aggregate body adorned with the thirty-two major marks and eighty minor marks is the direct retribution, while the insentient dependent environment—the container world and the Buddha-land—is the dependent retribution. The dependent retribution turns in accordance with the direct retribution, and the Buddha-land where the Buddha resides also becomes supremely beautiful and sublime. When the mind changes, all the dharmas in one's surroundings transform accordingly. This is what is meant by "a person of merit dwells in a land of blessing, and a land of blessing is dwelt in by a person of merit"!

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings
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