唯心淨土

To so expose one's mind that it dwells in all spatio-temporal universe, this is also called liberation. After the Buddha bore witness to the Way, he enjoyed seven days of liberation, as well know from the scriptures: liberation. What is the fun? What does liberation mean to life?

If you are already liberated, then you can comprehend Buddha's joy of liberation, and also comprehend the state of liberation as expounded in the Vimalakirti-irdesha Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, and the Flower Ornament Sutra. What cannot be seen or heard, the mind can see, hear, and substantiate. In Hegel's philosophy there is such a term: "substantiation of spirit". How can spirit be substantiated? After you have attained liberation, you will be able to turn your conscious thought into solid, real, ultimate, perfect ideal substance; only then can substantiation of spirit be implemented, so as to realize so called Pure Land or spiritual universe and natural universe. Since Pure Land (spiritual universe) reveals itself from within the mind, therefore, you only have to think up a cup and substantiate and realize it, as well as make your coffee tasty, and all food that you imagine can become reality, not just coffee; thus, you are primarily liberated. If you succeed in thinking up one item, it is equivalent to billions of items, because Buddhist truth consists in mental activity. Employing the concept of equality in the dharma-realm, one and a hundred millions are equal. Turn one into many, transform many into one; one is all, and all, one. The Flower Ornament Sutra proposes that one is all; if you can think up a cup of tangible, full-bodied coffee, and can drink it, smell it and, without using your five senses, appreciate the taste of that cup of coffee; if you can do this, then the Buddhist Pure Land is within your reach and you are liberated, dropping your mind into Pure Land; liberated and released, you are able to completely let your Primordial Mind be liberated and released from your physical body, and then make manifest the beautiful, majestic world. Starting from that cup of coffee thought up by your consciousness, you have realized the substantiation of spirit expounded by Hegel, and are able to realize that statement of Aristotle; all things in the universe come into being through your conscious judgment - consciousness changes all things; consciousness changes and manifests all things; all dharma lies in consciousness.

Religious scriptures are not apart from the Universal Light Body. Separated from the Universal Light Body, then there are no religions to discuss.

From ancient times to the present, human beings have been confined within the beliefs and worship of religious systems when considering the Universal Light Body. Going deeply into the Universal Light Body's very truth and discerning the complete and true picture of the Universal Light Body is always difficult.

The meaning of demonstrations of Dharma is to reveal Budda's wisdom and his vision. Through light emission and appearing in multiple bodies by the Light (the Universal Light body), the radiant Dharma realms can thereby be shown.

The manner of demonstrations of Dharma includes emitting light to illuminate radiant Dharma realms and appearing in multiple bodies to lead humans to the upper regions, all the various Buddha-lands (the Pure Lands).

What is liberation? The Vimalakirti-nirdesha Sutra states: Liberation results from theability to turn away and quit.

To turn away and quit means leaving the old for the new. The Bible states: The old heaven and old earth are abolished, in exchange for a new heaven and a new earth. Plato's God can emulate the image of the universe as it manifests itself in the space before our eyes. Through the material image produced by conscious changes of the Primordial Mind, the spiritual universe formed by substantiation of the spirit replaces the material form and alters its original material phenomenon. In this process of change and transformation, the material form still preserves its original state (unaltered primal pattern). This theory of modal patterns constitutes the structure of the universe as suggested by the description in the Book of Genesis and by the Platonic notion of "ideas". The God in Genesis is able to create heaven, earth, and all things, whereas Plato's God cannot create, but can only emulate the multifarious phenomena, which shape up the harmonious universe. The emulated universe itself does not change, but the image of the universe emulated by intellect and reason is even closer to perfection and harmony than the original universe itself. The theory of "patterns" in Plato's cosmology smacks of "liberation", but it has not as yet attained ultimate liberation!