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03 Aug 2019    Saturday     9th Teach Total 1763

The Emergence of Bodhisattva Nature

When sentient beings possess only the seventh and eighth consciousnesses without the five aggregates body, which sentient being has bodhisattva nature? If without bodhisattva nature one cannot attain Buddhahood, where do all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas in the ten directions come from? The manas did not have innate bodhisattva nature since beginningless kalpas, but after acquiring the five aggregates body, through the conditioning of the acquired environment, upon seeing the suffering of oneself and other sentient beings, bodhisattva nature arises, and ultimately one can attain Buddhahood. The act of arousing bodhisattva nature is most precious; to see the suffering of sentient beings and arouse compassion is most precious; this is the bodhisattva lineage.

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings
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