The Wisdom Realm of Boundless Emanations

The material things we see are actually heaps of particles, composed of the four great elements, and there is no substantial solid form of matter. These particles constantly arise, cease, mutate, and transform—this is precisely the phenomenon produced by the tathāgatagarbha in the manner of transmitting and reclaiming the seeds and subtle particles of the four great elements. Therefore, the tathāgatagarbha corresponds to and contacts external material form; all subtle particles of the four great elements belong to the tathāgatagarbha, so there is no question of whether the tathāgatagarbha contacts or does not contact the subtle particles of the four great elements and the external six sense objects. That the tathāgatagarbha transmits the particles of these external six sense objects to any place is also part of its inherent duty and natural capacity. If a person has immeasurable emanation bodies, it would not be surprising for one's own tathāgatagarbha to transmit the external six sense objects to immeasurable emanation bodies. Using the seeds of the four great elements, in different quantities and different arrangements and combinations, the tathāgatagarbha can generate immeasurable, boundless, and infinite material form—something our mind consciousness cannot imagine. Because merit is limited, wisdom is limited, and virtuous capacity is limited, and because we are obscured by ignorance and afflictions, what we can know and understand has an extremely great limit. Therefore, we must eliminate ignorance, afflictions, and habitual tendencies, remove the obstructions on our own mind-ground, so as to expand the capacity of the mind and the breadth of our vision, and grow wisdom to its utmost limit, attaining that realm of wisdom possessed by a Buddha.