The Great Calm Observation, Volume 1, Part 3, Page 8

 

3. How does one see the Buddha's various Spiritual Transformations and inspire the Bodhi mind?

  1. The Lesser Body of Response - When people see the One That Has Come and depend upon the Basic Meditations1, their unity creates a single mind that transcends all multiplicity. When He emits a single ray of light, there is a great brilliance illuminating from the lowest Avici hell2 all the way up to the highest Akanistha heaven3. With heaven and earth clearly penetrated, the sparkle of the sun and moon is dimmed, their heavenly lights being hidden by the brilliance. One vows to attain enlightenment like the Noble Lord of the Dharma.
  2. The Greater Body of Response - When people see the One That Has Come and depend upon the principle of non-birth, He responds to them without the aspects of duality and is able to make each of them see the Buddha alone before themselves. One vows to attain enlightenment like the Noble Lord of the Dharma.
  3. The Body of Reward - When people see the One That Has Come and depend upon the the Treasury of the Dharma and the proper perception of Samadhi, He raises up the four dignified forms of deportment4 in the innumerable lands of the ten directions and yet the Nature of Spirituality is never shaken. One vows to attain enlightenment like the Noble Lord of the Dharma.
  4. The Spiritual Body - When one sees that the One That Has Come is not separate or different from all spiritual transformations, The One That Has Come creates the spiritual transformations and the spiritual transformations create The One That Has Come. All of the incarnations are incalculable and each incarnation in turn creates more incarnations. They are inexhaustible and inconceivable. Everywhere there is the True Spiritual Aspect of Reality doing the Buddha's work. One vows to attain enlightenment like the Noble Lord of the Dharma.

 

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1. Basic meditations: The four basic meditations correspond with the four dhyana heavens (see below), which all lead to a single mind:

2. Avici Hell: The Hell of Incessant Suffering, the lowest of the Hells. The Eight Hells

3. Akanistha Heaven: The Highest of the 18 Heaven in the Realm of Form (the ninth and last of the fourth Dhyana Heavens). See the The 25 States of Existence and The Map of Heaven.

4. Four dignified forms of deportment: sitting, standing, walking, and lying down

 

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