The Healing of Illness Lies in the Physician’s Eight Consciousnesses Jointly Transforming the Patient’s Rūpa-Kāya

When a doctor cures a patient's illness, does it first alter the doctor's internal manifestation or the external manifestation? How does the internal manifestation arise? If this issue is not properly resolved, future realization will be unattainable. The question of which comes first, internal or external manifestations, is extremely important and cannot be bypassed. It involves the issue of the Tathagatagarbha manifesting all dharmas, how the Tathagatagarbha manifests, and the basis upon which it manifests. Understanding this issue makes realization easier.

The patient is the doctor's external manifestation. Treating the patient naturally changes the patient's physical body, restoring it to health. The patient's physical body is the external manifestation for the doctor. Healing is the process by which the doctor's eight consciousnesses collectively transform the patient's physical body, thereby altering the doctor's external manifestation. The doctor's Tathagatagarbha transmits the external manifestation through its own six sense faculties into the doctor's supreme sense faculties, where it becomes the internal manifestation, consistent with the external manifestation. The patient's physical body, perceived by the doctor as an internal manifestation, simultaneously recovers.

Healing also requires the participation of the first six consciousnesses; all eight consciousnesses are involved. If healing is achieved through visualization, the mental consciousness must also participate. The sixth, seventh, and eighth consciousnesses function together to transform the patient's physical body. This likewise changes the patient who is the doctor's external manifestation, and simultaneously alters the patient's body within the doctor's internal manifestation. How exactly the eight consciousnesses transform the patient's physical body and how they function upon the external manifestation's physical form requires practitioners engaged in meditation to investigate through meditation. After achieving a breakthrough in meditation, this will be understood.