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The Great Calm Observation, Volume 1, Part 2, Page 6
THE EXPLANATION OF THE TEN SECTIONS:
1. First, we explain The Main Idea.
It is the bag that contains the ten sections from beginning to end. It is the cap that crowns the ten sections from beginning to end. With the mind being slow it is difficult to see and so now it is gathered into five parts:
A. What is Inspiring the Great Mind?
With living beings in darkness and confusion, they do not recognize their own enlightenment. Encouraging them to awaken, one seeks that above to influence those below.
B. What is Practicing the Great Practice?
Although again and again inspiring the mind, one looks down the road but there is no movement, and one never reaches that which is hoped for. One is encouraged to have a firm and strong spirit of diligence and practice the Four Samadhis.
C. What is Feeling the Great Effect?
Although one does not wish for Brahma's heaven, one attains it spontaneously. One praises the wonderful reward that pleases the mind.
D. What is Breaking the Great Net?
The various scriptures and discourses open up the people's eyes, and yet they hold on to this while doubting that. Each of them reason that they are right and that others are wrong. The blind, upon hearing that the color white is like snow, reason that it is cold; upon hearing that the color white is like a crane, they reason that it moves. Now, upon penetrating the scriptures and discourses, one understands one's binds and leaves the cage.
E. What is Returning to the Great Place?
The Dharma1 is without a beginning or an end and it is without penetration or barriers. When one recognizes that it is without a beginning or an end and that it is without penetration or barriers, all of a sudden there is a great clarity that is unobstructed and at will.
The production and arising of these five is the outline of that which is elaborated later in ten sections.
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