The Principle of Cultivating Supernatural Powers

If you work on the manas, supernatural powers can be developed. What are called supernatural powers are simply this: the manas connects to the tathāgatagarbha, the tathāgatagarbha connects to everything, and then the six consciousnesses connect to the manas—that is all there is to it. By cultivating the four dhyānas and eight absorptions, the six consciousnesses can connect to the manas, seek things from the manas, and dig out everything that the manas knows. Do not let the manas cling to the body; do not take the five aggregates as truly existent. Then whatever the manas wants to do, it can do. When the manas no longer clings to the body of the five aggregates, the body of the five aggregates cannot obstruct the manas, and whatever the manas wants to do can be accomplished in an instant. If the mind constantly holds the notion of the body, the body becomes a burden, and no great undertaking can be accomplished. When deep in the mind there is truly no notion of the body—when the body is forgotten or no longer clung to—supernatural powers will naturally appear.