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07 May 2018    Monday     6th Teach Total 452

Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes

The Ghost King has one thousand eyes; the seeds of eye consciousness flow into one thousand eye faculties, and all one thousand eyes can see forms simultaneously.

He has one thousand hands and one thousand feet; the seeds of body consciousness flow simultaneously into one thousand hands and one thousand feet, so all one thousand hands and one thousand feet can act simultaneously.

For example, a person's entire body, from head to toe, belongs to the body faculty; the seeds of body consciousness flow into every part of the body faculty, so the whole body, inside and out, can act simultaneously.

A person's mental thoughts are numerous; the seeds of the mind consciousness flow into each mental sense-object, so the mind consciousness can discriminate extensively, extensively engage in mental engagement (manaskāra), contact, feeling, perception, and volition, and extensively create karmic actions.

The thousand-handed, thousand-eyed Great Compassion Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva—which one is the true eye?

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings
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