Tathāgatagarbha Information Sharing

The tathāgatagarbha is all within the internet, broadcasting information about its own five aggregates (pañcaskandha) anytime and anywhere, keeping nothing secret at all. Then the tathāgatagarbha obtains information from another tathāgatagarbha, and the manas comes to know of it; the manas discerns the information of that five aggregates—this is the relationship of resonance and intercommunication among sentient beings, also called the information sharing of the tathāgatagarbha. The tathāgatagarbha can, anytime and anywhere, gather all information outside the body of the five aggregates, all the realms of the six sense objects (ṣaḍāyatana), and the manas can also contact them anytime and anywhere. For information that is useful and significant to oneself, the manas alerts the mind consciousness to know it; for unimportant information, the manas handles it itself—either ignoring it or storing it in the tathāgatagarbha.

If sentient beings could share information among their six consciousnesses, with nothing hidden, everything transparent, without dark corners, there would be no killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, or falsehood—how wonderful the world would be, and how relaxed and joyful living would be. The minds of all the Buddhas are transparent, without concealment. Among bodhisattvas endowed with supernatural powers, the minds are also transparent, without concealment. Only such a quality of life is the highest.