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法門無量誓願學
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20 Sep 2018    Thursday     1st Teach Total 835

All dharmas are employed by the manas

All wealth is stored in the computer of the eighth consciousness; if the manas does not work, the wealth does not manifest. When the manas wants to take the wealth, wants the worldly dharmas of the three realms, wants to become a Buddha, the eighth consciousness then transports out all the wealth and supplies it for the manas to enjoy, while the manas must enjoy it through the six consciousnesses and the five-aggregate body. He takes the five-aggregate body and the six consciousnesses as himself and as his own tools, just as the hands and feet on the body are used by the body. All dharmas are used by the manas; the eighth consciousness does not use them. It is the manas that grasps at all dharmas and needs all dharmas. The manas is the greatest of all "selves." If He can be made not to take Himself as a self, not to take the five-aggregate body and the six consciousnesses as self and as belonging to self, and not to take all dharmas as self and as belonging to self, then everything is perfectly settled—the grasping at self and the grasping at dharmas are eliminated in full, and He would have more than enough to become a Buddha.

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings
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