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Liberation in the Two Vehicles

Selected Lectures on Saṃyukta Āgama, Volume 1 Contemplating the Five Aggregates and Eliminating the View of Self (Part I) (Second Edition) Observing the Five Aggregates to Cut Through the View of Self (Part 2) Commentary on the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Second Edition) (Newly Revised) A Concise Exposition of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment An Explanation of the Twelve Nidānas in the Āgama Sutras

Methods for Cultivating Samādhi

Cultivation of Concentration and Chan Meditation for Realization of the Way (Part 1) Cultivation and Zen Practice for Attaining Enlightenment (Part Two) Commentary on the Samādhi Meditation Sūtra

Prajñā Sūtras

Selected Lectures on the Sutra of the Meeting of Father and Son A Brief Explanation of the Mahayana Tathagatagarbha Sūtra Commentary on the Mahayana Vijnaptimatrata Sutra The Essence of the Heart Sutra Patriarch's Teachings: Direct Interpretation

Doctrines of the Consciousness-Only School

Mental Factors of the Mind base: A Practical Compass (Second Edition) (with over 30,000 additional words, reorganized) The Esoteric Significance of the Śūraṅgama Sūtra The Profound Meaning of the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sutra from the Consciousness-Only Perspective (Second Edition) A Brief Discourse on the Essence of Consciousness The Mind Faculty and Consciousness Theoretical Realization and Practical Realization The Right Understanding of Manas Guide to the Cultivation and Realization of the Manas: Part One A Guide to the Cultivation and Realization of the Mind: Part Two The World of Black Boxes Brief Discussion on Material Elements (Draft)

Comprehensive Overview

Miscellaneous Discussions on Buddhism (Part One) Miscellaneous Discourses on the Dharma (Part II) Compilation of Daily Discourses

Vinaya Precepts

Commentaries on Buddhist Śāstras

Selected Lectures on the Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi-śāstra Selected Lectures on the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra Exposition on the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination in the Yogācārabhūmi The Twenty-Ninth Volume of the Yogācāra-bhūmi-śāstra (The Practice of the Four Right Efforts) Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra, Volume Thirty-Four: Characteristics of the Four Noble Truths Abhidharmakośa-śāstra, Volume XXIII: The Four Preparatory Practices Commentary on the Abhidharmakośa, Volume XXIII (Hearing Wisdom and Contemplative Wisdom)
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What Are the Bodhisattva's Wrathful Gaze and Thunderous Means?

<h2 style="text-indent: 2em;">Question: What is meant by a bodhisattva's vajra glare and thunderous means?</h2>

Answer: For example, suppose a person with a cleanliness obsession is penned up with pigs. Seeing the pigs defecating and urinating in their straw nest, the person cannot help but kick a pig—that is thunderous means. Likewise, when a bodhisattva whose mind is already pure comes to the evil world of the five turbidities and stays among sentient beings of greed, hatred, and delusion, seeing that sentient beings are deeply mired in ignorance, committing deluded karma without being aware of it, and refusing to accept instruction and transformation, the bodhisattva cannot help but loudly rebuke them—that is the vajra glare.

<h2 style="text-indent: 2em;">Question: But wouldn't that make people say the bodhisattva lacks compassion?</h2>

Answer: Whether one is compassionate or not has never been defined by sentient beings. A bodhisattva pours out heart and lungs for sentient beings, yet sentient beings are heartless and lungless, and do not even recognize a heart or lungs—so being scolded is unavoidable. For a bodhisattva not to be scolded by sentient beings in the evil world of the five turbidities would be rather abnormal; otherwise, where would all those bodhisattvas who regress come from?

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings

Which consciousness's functional activity is it to blurt something out spontaneously?

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