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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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08 Mar 2018 Thursday 4th Teach Total 172

The Claim That the Manas Has No Meditative Concentration (Samādhi) Is Utterly Groundless

<h2 style="text-indent: 2em;">Question: Is the cessation of perception and feeling (nirodha-samāpatti) a samādhi of the manas? In the four dhyānas and the four formless absorptions, the mind consciousness still exists, so they can be said to be samādhi of the mind consciousness. In the cessation of perception and feeling, the mind consciousness has already ceased, leaving only the manas and the tathāgatagarbha. If one says the manas has no samādhi, then the cessation of perception and feeling could not be called a samādhi.</h2>

Answer: That is right—saying the manas has no samādhi makes no sense at all. Even the samādhi of the mind consciousness, the samādhi of the six consciousnesses, is the result of the manas being in samādhi; otherwise the six consciousnesses absolutely could not enter samādhi.

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings

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