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十觀

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Basic Meaning: ten levels of discernment

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  • Explicating the Huayan samādhi, Chengguan enumerates ten levels of discernment:
    1. The marks return to reality (she xiang gui zhen 攝相歸眞)
    2. Realization of reality by extinction of marks (xiang jin zheng shi 相盡證實)
    3. The nonobstruction of marks and reality (xiang shi wuai 相實無礙)
    4. Marks include things originated (sui xiang she sheng 隨相攝生)
    5. Conditionally originated things mutually interfuse (yuanji xiangshou 緣起相收)
    6. Contents of tiny things (weixi rongshe 微細容攝)
    7. The mutual identity of one and many (yiduo xiangji 一多相卽)
    8. The interrelatedness of Indraʼs net (diwang chongchong 帝網重重)
    9. The perfect interfusion of host and guests (zhuban yuanrong 主伴圓融)
    10. The equality of result-ocean (guohai pingdeng 果海平等) [T 1736.36.271a20–23].
    Chengguan states that these ten levels of discernment contain the four dharma-dhātus. The first and second are the dharma-dhātu of principle, the third is the dharma-dhātu of nonobstruction of phenomena and principle, the fourth is the dharma-dhātu of phenomena, the fifth to ninth comprise the dharma-dhātu of nonobstruction of phenomena and phenomena, the tenth links the previous four dharma-dhātus. [Imre Hamar]
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    Entry created: 2009-02-04