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This book mainly expounds the many inherent natures and functional roles of the manas, chiefly expounding the important position and role of the manas in the process of Buddhist practice and realization, emphasizing the meritorious function of realizing the fruits through the manas, and also pointing out the main role of the manas in meditative investigation. In short, the practice and realization of the Buddha-dharma both take the manas as the primary factor; apart from the manas, there can be no talk of practice at all, let alone of actual realization, and what is practiced will bear no fruit. The practice of all dharmas must ultimately be brought back to the manas and reach the manas before it can have real meaning and results and before accomplishment can be achieved. Sentient beings in the final age have minds that are mostly restless and scattered, their good roots are meager, their greed is heavy, and their merit is thin; the bustle and confusion of worldly affairs make it difficult to keep the precepts and difficult to cultivate meditative concentration, and the mind cannot be purified. Buddhist practitioners generally take the learning of knowledge as their main pursuit, often taking the theories they have learned, taking the emotional thoughts and intellectual interpretations of the mind consciousness, as actual realization, and taking the results obtained through speculation, inference, and research as actual realization, thereby deluding themselves and then deluding others. If one understands the inherent nature of the manas, one will know the characteristics of actual realization and its distinction from emotional thoughts and intellectual interpretations, and will understand the crucial pivot and key points of actual realization; then one can avoid falling into such errors and will not commit the grave karmic offense of false claims to realization.
