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08 Mar 2018    Thursday     5th Teach Total 173

Tathāgatagarbha is like the great ocean, and all dharmas are like bubbles of foam

All dharmas are inseparable from the tathāgatagarbha, yet the tathāgatagarbha operates apart from all dharmas. Wherever the tathāgatagarbha is, there all dharmas are; as long as the tathāgatagarbha does not move, no dharma moves. How could there be such illusory marks of arising, ceasing, coming, and going? When the tathāgatagarbha does not move, the manas does not move, nor do the six consciousnesses—how could the body of the five aggregates move? This dharma arising and that dharma ceasing is nothing but the surging of foam in the great ocean of the tathāgatagarbha; it never goes beyond the tathāgatagarbha, and it is all just the water of the great ocean of the tathāgatagarbha.

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings
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