Chapter 9: Maturation, 13 July 1982
Discusses buddha awakening or omniscience in detail through its characteristics, the notion of fundamental change, its activity, the profundity or perfection of the uncontaminated dharmadhatu, its many forms of mastery through the fundamental change of the eight consciousness, the three buddhakayas, the four buddha wisdoms and their causes, the manner for attaining buddhahood, and the unity of the enlightened activity of all buddhas
to ripen one's own being by 9 means /methods:
1. developing joy
2. developing unchangeable, great ripened faith in Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
3. pacification of conflicts and emotions, of the own mind,
4. developing love and affection/compassion for all sentient beings
5. to make patience ripen, developing the right motivation of being of benefit for others
6. developing the maturation of wisdom
7. maturation of power by accumulating merit and wisdom
8. maturation of the capability of not being able to be defeated by others
9. maturation of the abandonment, the absence of conflict emotion and the joy for the wholesome practice of the Mahayana.
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