ABSTRACT

This is the stage where there is full awareness of the immaculacy of all sentient beings, where body and mind are tranquil and free of defiling passions, where equanimity and impartiality completely fill all the ten quarters, where there is no duality but only conformity with Enlightened Nature, and where Pure Lands are revealed within this realm which is beyond the mundane and the holy. They mistakenly perceive the four elements to be properties of their own bodies and the shadows that flit across the fields of their six senses to be properties of their own minds. They are just like someone with diseased eyes who sees in the sky flowers floating around or two moons. This provisional joining together of the conditions associated with the four elements arbitrarily possesses six sense organs. These six sense organs and the four elements take on an exterior and interior form, which is accompanied by feelings arising according to conditions.