The Tathāgatagarbha's Manifestation of All Dharmas

Who reveals all the secrets about oneself that become known to others? When we interact and engage with people, we can immediately grasp some general information about the other party. How is information about others revealed? When viewing a photograph, there is no actual person present, and there is no need for the other person's Tathagatagarbha to transmit information. Yet, we can still discern the other person's character, age, temperament, disposition, and life background. How is this known? For someone who died hundreds or thousands of years ago, as long as they left behind a single relic, a person with supernatural powers can use these relics to understand where that person is now, what their identity is, and the state of their five aggregates. What is this knowledge based upon? Especially the Buddha, who possesses immeasurable supernatural powers, including the divine eye of knowing past lives, knows every single thing, big and small, that every individual has done since beginningless time, including the most minute details. How does the Buddha know all this?

When asleep, unconscious, or lacking awareness, information about the five aggregates can still be revealed. Even a single photograph can reveal all the information about a sentient being. A photograph is jointly maintained by numerous Tathagatagarbhas; it is not maintained by a single individual's Tathagatagarbha. Like written words, a photograph does not involve the other party's Tathagatagarbha or the five aggregates. It is one's own Tathagatagarbha that transforms the photograph or text into internal form objects. When the consciousness possesses wisdom, it can contemplate, analyze, and process the hidden meanings within the photograph or text. Without wisdom, it contemplates and analyzes erroneously, arriving at incorrect conclusions.

Relics contain information left behind by their owner. The Tathagatagarbha can follow the clues to find that person's Tathagatagarbha and thus learn all the information from it. When the consciousness wants to know, it relies on either supernatural powers or the manas (mental faculty) being alert to some important, relevant information. For example, if a person stays in a room and then leaves, and hours or half a day later, a snake enters that room, it can know that someone was just staying there. Part of that person's information remains in the room, such as temperature, scent, etc., which the snake can discern. It can then follow this information to find that person. The Tathagatagarbha is like that snake—extremely sensitive and omniscient. It depends on the wisdom of the conscious mind whether it can excavate the information from the manas and Tathagatagarbha.

Tathagatagarbhas are all within the internet, constantly and unreservedly broadcasting all information about their own five aggregates. Simultaneously, they can also obtain all information from other Tathagatagarbhas. Tathagatagarbhas mutually exchange information; there are no secrets. They neither intentionally conceal anything nor deliberately reveal anything; their mind is completely open. The manas of every sentient being, relying on their own Tathagatagarbha, can also know the relevant information within the other's Tathagatagarbha. Thus, the manas can know the other party, and consequently, people with karmic connections have a certain resonance.

The Tathagatagarbha can constantly absorb all information from the external world pertaining to the five aggregates. Consequently, the manas can constantly perceive the external objects of the six senses. For information that is useful or significant to oneself, the manas alerts the consciousness to know it. For unimportant information, the manas handles it itself—either ignoring it or storing it in the Tathagatagarbha as a record.

Is there any secret in the world that cannot be leaked? Do secrets even exist? Matters within each person's mind are not known only to oneself. There are even more thoughts and ideas unknown to oneself that others already know long ago. How could there be any secrets? A person with the divine eye of knowing past lives can examine every single experience of every individual since beginningless time as if consulting an archive, retrieving it quickly without omitting even the smallest detail. However, this examination is done through the Tathagatagarbha. All secrets are also leaked out by the Tathagatagarbha.