Appendix A · Academic Notes Index
The main text was written to be spoken to you. So the catalog numbers, the fascicle references, the source locations—all of these have been ushered out of its pages and gathered here.
This index serves two purposes. First, it lets the reader who wants to look closer go from any chapter of the book back to the exact place in the sūtras and treatises on which that chapter rests. Second, it gives a single overview of the principal scriptures and treatises cited across the book's thirty-one chapters. Nothing in this book is invented—every chapter's argument presses down on the original wording of the texts listed below. All quotations have been collated against the CBETA Electronic Tripiṭaka (the Taishō canon and the Manji Zokuzōkyō) and the Pali Text Society (PTS) / Mahāsaṅgīti editions of the Pāli canon.
Numbering conventions: T refers to the Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (volume and text number); X to the Manji Shinsan Zokuzōkyō; PTS to Pali Text Society page references; Vism to the Visuddhimagga. Throughout this book the Visuddhimagga is cited by paraphrase only, never quoted directly, in keeping with the terms of its source license.
1 · The Principal Scriptures and Treatises: An Overview
Pāli Canon (with Chinese Āgama parallels)
| Text | Number | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| Aṅguttara Nikāya (AN) 6.25 / 11.11 (the subjects of recollection) · 6.10 / 6.26 / 6.9 | PTS iii.312 / v.328 etc. | 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 (the five marks of the recollection of letting-go) |
| AN 8.31 / 8.32 / 8.36, the eight kinds of giving · the three bases of meritorious activity | PTS iv.236 / 237 / 241 | 2.1, 2.5, 9.x |
| AN 9.20, the Velāma Sutta | PTS iv.392–396 | 2.2 |
| AN 5.34 / 7.57, the Sīha Sutta · 5.36, timely giving · 5.148, the good person's gifts | PTS iii.39 / iv.79 / iii.41 / iii.172 | 2.3, 9.2 |
| Saṃyutta Nikāya (SN) 55.21 / 55.31–33 / 55.39 / 55.40, the Sotāpatti-saṃyutta (stream-entry collection) | PTS v.369–396 | 1.2, 2.2 |
| Majjhima Nikāya (MN) 142, the Dakkhiṇāvibhaṅga Sutta (Analysis of Offerings) | PTS iii.253–257 | 2.4 |
| Itivuttaka (It) 26 / 75 / 98 | PTS It 18 / 65 / 98 | 1.1, 2.3, 2.4 |
| Vinaya, Mahāvagga I.22 (the meeting with Bimbisāra) · Cullavagga VI.4 (the Anāthapiṇḍada account) | Vin i 35–40 / ii 154–162 | 3.1, 9.3 (the graduated discourse, Mv I.22) |
| Saṃyuktāgama (the Chinese SĀ) | T0099 (fascicles 30–33; SA 711 / 845 / 1044 etc.) | 1.x, 3.2, 9.1 |
| Ekottarāgama | T0125 (fascicles 12 / 19 / 20 / 24 / 37 / 51) | 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.2, 9.x |
| Madhyamāgama | T0026 (fascicles 4 / 33 / 39 / 47) | 1.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 6.1 |
| Dīrghāgama, the Saṅgīti Sūtra | T0001 (fascicle 8; fascicle 20, the graduated discourse) | 2.5, 9.3 |
Mahāyāna Sūtras
| Text | Number | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| Diamond Sūtra (Jin'gang Banruo Boluomi Jing) | T0235 | 5.1 |
| Heart Sūtra (Banruo Boluomiduo Xinjing) | T0251 | 5.2 |
| Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra | T0220 (fascicle 528, "Wondrous Marks" chapter / fascicles 162–165, the chapter on the true dāna-pāramitā / fascicle 571 etc.) | 4.1, 5.2, 5.3 |
| Mañjuśrī Prajñā Sūtra (the one-practice samādhi) | T0232 | 8.3 |
| Śūraṅgama Sūtra | T0945 (fascicles 5–6, the perfect penetrations and the four clear and definitive instructions on purity / fascicles 9–10, the fifty skandha-māras) | 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 |
| Lotus Sūtra | T0262 (Dharma Teachers chapter / Sadāparibhūta, "Never Disrespectful," Bodhisattva chapter / Bhaiṣajyarāja Bodhisattva's Former Deeds chapter) | 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 |
| Zheng Fahua Jing · Tianpin Miaofa Lianhua Jing (alternate Lotus translations) | T0263 / T0264 | 7.x (translation comparison) |
| Avataṃsaka Sūtra, eighty-fascicle | T0279 (fascicle 34, Ten Grounds chapter / fascicles 60–80, Entering-the-Dharma-Realm chapter) | 8.1, 8.4, 8.5 |
| Avataṃsaka Sūtra, sixty-fascicle | T0278 | 8.x (comparison) |
| Avataṃsaka Sūtra, forty-fascicle · Samantabhadra Practice-Vows chapter | T0293 (fascicle 40, the vast cultivation of offerings · the dharma-offering / fascicle 38, the Mañjuśrī chapter) | 8.2, 8.3 |
| Liudu Jijing (Collected Sūtras on the Six Pāramitās) | T0152 | 4.1, 5.2 |
| Vimalakīrti Sūtra, Bodhisattvas chapter, the Shande section | T0475 | 9.3 |
| Sūtra on the Merits of the Fundamental Vows of the Medicine-Master Tathāgata of Lapis Lazuli Radiance (the fifth great vow) | T0450 | 9.3 (the seam into Volume Three) |
| Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (Northern edition), fascicle 19 | T0374 | 9.2 |
| Zhancha Shan'e Yebao Jing (Sūtra on Divining the Retribution of Good and Evil Deeds) | T0839 | 9.1 |
Treatises and Commentaries
| Treatise / Commentary | Number | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra (attr. Nāgārjuna, tr. Kumārajīva)—the book's central axis | T1509 (fascicles 11–14 / 19 / 24 / 27 / 59 / 60 / 61 / 92 etc.) | 1.x, 2.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.3, 9.x |
| Madhyamaka-śāstra, "Investigation of Karma" chapter (Nāgārjuna) | T1564 (fascicle 3) | 9.2 |
| Dazhangfu Lun (Treatise on the Great Man, by the bodhisattva Devala, tr. Daotai)—the "Growth of the Donor and the Beggar" chapter | T1577 | 4.1 |
| Daśabhūmika-vibhāṣā (Nāgārjuna) · Daśabhūmika-sūtra-śāstra (Vasubandhu) | T1521 / T1522 | 8.1, 8.2 |
| Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra (spoken by Maitreya, tr. Xuanzang) | T1579 (fascicle 3, the four conditions / fascicles 39–40, the chapters on giving and on virtue) | 4.4, 6.1, 9.2 |
| Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra (Asaṅga) | T1604 (fascicles 7–8, the six meanings · the seven attachments) | 4.x |
| Mahāyānasaṃgraha (Asaṅga) | T1592 | 4.1 |
| Abhidharmakośa (Vasubandhu) | T1558 (fascicles 13 / 18) | 9.2 |
| Cheng Weishi Lun (Demonstration of Consciousness-Only; tr. Xuanzang) | T1585 (fascicles 1 / 4 / 7) | 9.2 |
| Treatise on the Diamond Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (Vasubandhu) · Jin'gangxian Lun (Vasubandhu's treatise with Jin'gangxian's explanation, tr. Bodhiruci) | T1511 / T1512 | 5.1 |
| Kuiji, Banruo Boluomiduo Xinjing Youzan (Profound Eulogy on the Heart Sūtra) · Fazang, Xinjing Lüeshu (Brief Commentary on the Heart Sūtra) · Woncheuk, Xinjing Zan (Eulogy on the Heart Sūtra) | T1710 / T1712 / T1711 | 5.2, 5.3 |
| Zhiyi, Miaofa Lianhua Jing Wenju (Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sūtra) · Zhanran, Wenju Ji (Notes on the Words and Phrases) · Jizang, Fahua Yishu (Commentary on the Meaning of the Lotus) | T1718 / T1719 / T1721 | 7.x |
| Fazang, Huayan Jing Tanxuan Ji (Record of Probing the Mysteries of the Huayan Sūtra) · Chengguan, Huayan Jing Shu (the Great Commentary) · Li Tongxuan, Xin Huayan Jing Lun (New Treatise on the Huayan Sūtra) | T1733 / T1735 / T1739 | 8.1, 8.4 |
| Chengguan, Huayan Jing Xingyuanpin Shu (Commentary on the Practice-Vows Chapter) · Xingyuanpin Shuchao (Chengguan's commentary with Zongmi's subcommentary) | X0227 / X0229 | 8.2, 8.3 |
| Fazang, Huayan Yisheng Jiaoyi Fenqi Zhang (the Wujiao Zhang, Treatise on the Five Teachings) · Fazang, Jin Shizi Zhang (Treatise on the Golden Lion) · Chengguan, Huayan Fajie Xuanjing (Mirror of the Mysteries of the Huayan Dharma-Realm) | T1866 / T1881 / T1883 | 8.5 |
| The four Śūraṅgama commentaries: Jiehuan, Yaojie (Essential Explanation) · Hanshan Deqing, Tongyi (Comprehensive Discussion) · Ouyi Zhixu, Wenju (Words and Phrases) · Jiaoguang Zhenjian, Zhengmai Shu (Straight-Vein Commentary) | X0270 / X0279 / X0285 / X0275 | 6.x |
| Ouyi Zhixu, Amituo Jing Yaojie (Essential Explanation of the Amitābha Sūtra) · Yongming Yanshou, Wanshan Tonggui Ji (The Ten Thousand Good Practices Return to the Same Source) · Shandao, Guānjīng Sìtiē Shū (Commentary on the Contemplation Sūtra) · Zongmi, Chanyuan Zhuquanji Duxu (Preface to the Collected Writings on the Source of Chan) | T1762 / T2017 / T1753 / T2015 | 8.3, 9.1, 9.3 |
| Pusa Yingluo Benye Jing (Sūtra of the Bodhisattva's Necklace of Original Acts) · Brahma Net Sūtra (Fanwang Jing) · Upāsaka Precepts Sūtra (Youposai Jie Jing) | T1485 / T1484 / T1488 | 3.2, 6.1, 9.3 |
2 · Chapter-by-Chapter Sources
Part One · Pāli Roots
| Chapter | Principal sources |
|---|---|
| 1.1 Giving: Loosening the Hand | It 26 (even the last morsel shared); AN 6.25, the five-mark cāga formula (muttacāga and the rest, PTS iii.312); the gloss on macchera (Vism VII.5, by paraphrase); It 98 (the gift of the Dhamma is supreme) |
| 1.2 Letting Go: A Mark of Stream-Entry | SN 55.21 (faith, virtue, learning, letting-go, and wisdom steeping the mind—the ghee that floats upward; v.369); SN 55.31/32/33 (the fourth limb of the four factors in its three tracks—virtue, letting-go, wisdom; v.391–392); SN 55.39, Kaligodha's own attestation (v.395); SN 55.40, heedfulness (v.396); AN 8.36 (the giving-and-virtue bargain vs. what cultivation accomplishes; iv.241) |
| 1.3 Looking Back on What You Have Given | AN 6.25, the six recollections (iii.312); the five cāga marks, as in SN 55.32; the two methods and access concentration (Vism VII.5, by paraphrase); Ekottarāgama T0125, fascicle 1, "Ten Recollections" chapter, and fascicle 2, "Expanded Explanations" chapter |
Part Two · Giving in the Āgamas
| Chapter | Principal sources |
|---|---|
| 2.1 One Hand, Eight Minds | AN 8.31, the eight motives for giving (iv.236; the eighth, cittālaṅkāra-cittaparikkhāra); Ekottarāgama T0125, fascicle 37, "Eight Difficulties" chapter, sūtra 9 (the eight merits of giving, including "giving for liberation, hoping for no reward" and "giving to seek cessation, not to seek heaven") |
| 2.2 Eighty-Four Thousand, and One Finger-Snap | AN 9.20, the Velāma Sutta (iv.392–396); the three Chinese parallels, T0073 / Madhyamāgama T0026, fascicle 39, sūtra 155 / Ekottarāgama T0125, fascicle 19, sūtra 3; SN 55.31–33; Vinaya Cv VI.4, the graduated teaching |
| 2.3 Visible in This Very Life | AN 5.34, the Sīha Sutta (four fruits sandiṭṭhika—visible here and now—plus one samparāyika, belonging to the life to come; iii.39); AN 7.57 (iv.79); It 26 ("as I know"); Ekottarāgama T0125, fascicle 24, "Heap of Goodness" chapter, sūtra 10 ("like the lion, king of beasts"); AN 5.36 / AN 8.32 |
| 2.4 A Robe Woven with Her Own Hands | MN 142, the Dakkhiṇāvibhaṅga Sutta (the fourteen gifts to persons; the seven gifts to the Saṅgha; the four purifications of offerings; iii.253–257); Madhyamāgama T0026, fascicle 47, sūtra 180, the Gautamī discourse; Fenbie Bushi Jing (Sūtra on the Analysis of Giving, T0084); It 98 |
| 2.5 Giving, Virtue, Cultivation: Begin with the Hand | AN 8.36, the three bases of meritorious activity (iv.241); Ekottarāgama T0125, fascicle 12, "Three Jewels" chapter, sūtra 2 (the activity of giving / the activity of equality / the activity of contemplation); Dīrghāgama T0001, fascicle 8, the Saṅgīti Sūtra; Saṃyuktāgama T0099, fascicle 30, SA 841 (giving, virtue, cultivation—where the hundred streams of merit converge) |
Part Three · The Field of Merit in the Vinaya
| Chapter | Principal sources |
|---|---|
| 3.1 The Park Covered with Gold | Vinaya Cv VI.4, the Anāthapiṇḍada account (gold spread over the ground; the dedication to the saṅgha of the four directions; Vin ii 154–162); Vinaya Mv I.22, Bimbisāra and the Bamboo Grove (Vin i 35–40); Four-Part Vinaya T1428, fascicle 50, the skandhaka on lodgings (the three prohibitions: not to be divided, not to be appropriated for oneself, not to be bought or sold); the five Vinayas compared, T1421 / T1425 / T1435 / T1442 |
| 3.2 A Gift That Costs Nothing | AN 8.39, the five great gifts (iv.245), with Ekottarāgama T0125, fascicle 20, the Bhaddiya householder episode (Maudgalyāyana teaching the five great gifts); Saṃyuktāgama T0099, fascicle 37, SA 1044 (the method of taking oneself as the measure); the origin of the rains retreat across the five Vinayas, T1428, fascicle 37, etc.; Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicle 14 ("to keep the precepts and not to harm—this is the gift of fearlessness") |
Part Four · Early Mahāyāna: From Giving to Pāramitā
| Chapter | Principal sources |
|---|---|
| 4.1 Only Across the River Is the Other Shore | Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra T0220, fascicle 571 (one who gives without prajñā-pāramitā gains only the name of giving—it is not reaching the other shore); Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicle 60 (with something to obtain / with nothing to obtain); Dazhangfu Lun T1577 (the beggar is what makes the giving possible); Liudu Jijing T0152 |
| 4.2 An Eye Given Away | Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicles 11–12 (Śāriputra's gift of his eye; the three things unobtainable; the three obstructions vs. the three purifications; stinginess this shore, dāna the river-crossing, the buddha-way the far shore) |
| 4.3 Empty Does Not Mean Nothing | Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra T0220, fascicle 569 ("practicing giving, yet with nothing relinquished"); Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicles 11–12 (existence by designation; the three things unobtainable); Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra T1604, fascicle 8 |
| 4.4 However Great the Gift, There Is a Bottom Line | Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra T1579, fascicle 39 (the nine modes of giving; the ten aspects of purity; "sooner relinquish body and life than follow another's command"); Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra T1604, fascicle 7 (the six meanings; the seven attachments) |
Part Five · Prajñā: The Three Wheels Empty
| Chapter | Principal sources |
|---|---|
| 5.1 Giving Without Abiding in Marks | Diamond Sūtra T0235 ("the bodhisattva should practice giving without abiding in anything"; giving while abiding in dharmas is like entering darkness; "because merit is empty, the Tathāgata says that merit is gained"; not receiving merit; not grasping at marks, unmoving as suchness); Treatise on the Diamond Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra T1511 (Vasubandhu); Jin'gangxian Lun T1512 (Vasubandhu's treatise, Jin'gangxian's explanation, tr. Bodhiruci) |
| 5.2 The Sūtra That Never Mentions Giving | Heart Sūtra T0251 ("illuminating the five skandhas as all empty, crossing beyond all suffering"; "no wisdom and no attainment"); Kuiji, Xinjing Youzan T1710 ("because it speaks by gathering all together"); Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicles 27 / 59 (the merit-portion and the wisdom-portion; when the king comes, his generals and retinue must follow); Fazang, Xinjing Lüeshu T1712 |
| 5.3 Prajñā Is the Eye | Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra T0220, fascicle 528, "Wondrous Marks" chapter (the sequence giving→virtue→concentration→wisdom) / fascicles 162–165, the chapter on the true dāna-pāramitā ("with the unobtainable as skillful means, cultivating the pāramitā of giving"); Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicle 34 (the five pāramitās are as the blind; prajñā is the eye); Fazang, Xinjing Lüeshu T1712 ("expansive or brief, according with conditions") |
Part Six · The Reverse Side of the Śūraṅgama: Giving Within Not-Taking
| Chapter | Principal sources |
|---|---|
| 6.1 Not Taking Is Also a Kind of Giving | Śūraṅgama Sūtra T0945, fascicle 6, the third clear and definitive instruction on purity ("if stealing-mind is not abandoned, the dust cannot be left"; giving the surplus of one's almsfood to hungry beings; sharing one's flesh, bones, and blood with sentient beings); Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicles 12–13 (not begrudging even one's own things, much less robbing; the precepts as the dwelling-place of all good dharmas); the four commentaries (Jiehuan / Hanshan / Ouyi / Zhenjian) |
| 6.2 Every Road Is a Kind of Giving | Śūraṅgama Sūtra T0945, fascicles 5–6 (Avalokiteśvara's perfect penetration through the ear-faculty; the fourteen bestowals of fearlessness; the thirty-two response-bodies; Mahāsthāmaprāpta's buddha-recollection samādhi, the two people who remember each other; the bodhisattva Dharaṇiṃdhara, "Holding the Ground"); Zhengmai Shu X0275 |
| 6.3 When the Offering Is Hijacked | Śūraṅgama Sūtra T0945, fascicles 9–10, the fifty skandha-māras (mistaking the thief for one's own son; if the host is confused, the guest gets his opening; serving as servants with the four kinds of offerings; the white-robed layman receiving the bows of bhikṣus); Zhenjian, "the real cause of māra is the defilement of one's own mind" (X0275); Hanshan quoting the Avataṃsaka, "to forget bodhicitta while cultivating good roots is the work of māras" (X0279) |
Part Seven · The Lotus: The Offering of Body and Dharma
| Chapter | Principal sources |
|---|---|
| 7.1 The Dharma Needs Someone to Carry It | Lotus Sūtra T0262, Dharma Teachers chapter (wherever the sūtra-scroll is, there is the whole body of the Tathāgata; entering the Tathāgata's room, wearing the Tathāgata's robe, sitting on the Tathāgata's seat); Zhiyi, "the Dharma can serve as the track, but it does not spread itself—its spreading lies with the person" (T1718); Zheng Fahua Jing T0263 (the robe-and-seat pair) |
| 7.2 The Bodhisattva Who Bowed to Everyone | Lotus Sūtra T0262, fascicle 6, the Sadāparibhūta ("Never Disrespectful") Bodhisattva chapter ("I deeply respect you all—you all shall become Buddhas"); Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicle 12 (the giving of reverence) / fascicle 1 (faith is the entry into the great ocean of the Buddha's Dharma); Samantabhadra Practice-Vows chapter T0293 (reverencing all Buddhas; bowing to beings and bowing to the Buddha are not different at the source—Zhanran, Wenju Ji T1719) |
| 7.3 What Was That Fire Burning? | Lotus Sūtra T0262, fascicle 6, the Bhaiṣajyarāja Bodhisattva's Former Deeds chapter (the true dharma-offering; "this is the foremost of gifts"; receiving and keeping a four-line verse); Zheng Fahua Jing T0263 ("because of his single mind there was no pain"; making the body a lamp); Zhiyi, "true dharma-offering is the inward exercise of wisdom-contemplation—offerer and offering alike unobtainable" (T1718); Zhanran, "otherwise it becomes profitless asceticism" (T1719) |
Part Eight · The Huayan Dharma-Realm: The Vast Cultivation of Offerings
| Chapter | Principal sources |
|---|---|
| 8.1 Giving: The Door into the Way | Eighty-fascicle Avataṃsaka T0279, fascicle 34, Ten Grounds chapter, the Ground of Joy (great compassion at the head; begrudging nothing whatsoever; the accomplishment of great relinquishing; for the sake of seeking the vast wisdom of the Buddhas); Daśabhūmika-sūtra-śāstra T1522 (great compassion at the head as the cause of abiding); Daśabhūmika-vibhāṣā T1521 |
| 8.2 Offerings, Stretched Until There Is No Edge | Forty-fascicle Avataṃsaka T0293, fascicle 40, Samantabhadra Practice-Vows chapter, the vast cultivation of offerings (clouds of flowers, clouds of garlands; lamp-wicks like Mount Sumeru; the realm of space may be exhausted and the realm of beings exhausted, yet my offerings will never be exhausted; thought after thought continuing without interruption); Chengguan, Xingyuanpin Shu X0227 ("this is the contemplative practice set out above") |
| 8.3 The Highest Offering | Forty-fascicle Avataṃsaka T0293, fascicle 40 ("Among all offerings, the dharma-offering is supreme"; the seven dharma-offerings: practicing as taught / benefiting beings / embracing beings / taking on beings' suffering / diligently cultivating good roots / not forsaking the bodhisattva's work / not departing from bodhicitta), with fascicle 38, the Mañjuśrī chapter (if there were no sentient beings, no bodhisattva would attain perfect awakening); Chengguan, Xingyuanpin Shu X0227 · Shuchao X0229 (a gift of wealth, if it accords with the Dharma, is wholly dharma-offering) |
| 8.4 Sudhana's Long Road | Eighty-fascicle Avataṃsaka T0279, fascicles 60–80, Entering-the-Dharma-Realm chapter (Mañjuśrī's ushering-in; the four "do nots"; Mañjuśrī reaching back to lay his hand on Sudhana's head; seeing his own body within Samantabhadra's body); forty-fascicle Avataṃsaka T0293, fascicle 4 (the four "do nots"); Fazang, Tanxuan Ji T1733 (the fifty-three teachers are all dharma-gates); Chengguan, Huayan Jing Shu T1735 (the two sages mutually containing) |
| 8.5 The Dharma Itself Is Giving | Eighty-fascicle Avataṃsaka T0279, fascicle 80 (Samantabhadra's own words: "In all my ocean of dharma, there is not one letter, not one phrase, that I have not acquired by relinquishing the position of universal monarch"); sixty-fascicle Avataṃsaka T0278, fascicle 60 (cross-translation comparison); Wujiao Zhang T1866 · Jin Shizi Zhang T1881 (Fazang: the single practice of giving gathers in all practices; giving is itself the nine pāramitās) |
Part Nine · The Modern Diagnosis, and a Coda
| Chapter | Principal sources |
|---|---|
| 9.1 After the Gift, Is the Heart at Peace? | Saṃyuktāgama T0099, SA 711 (when the awakening-factor of joy is fulfilled, body and mind become tranquil); Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicle 19 (joy born within real wisdom; the awakening-factor of tranquility); joy as the proximate cause of tranquility (Vism VII, by paraphrase); Shandao, "goodness mixed with poison" (Wangsheng Lizan Ji T1980 / Guānjīng Sìtiē Shū T1753); Yongming, Wanshan Tonggui Ji ("cast buddha-recollection into the scattered mind, and the scattered mind cannot but become Buddha"; T2017); Ouyi, Amituo Jing Yaojie ("weary of Saha, aspiring to the Land of Bliss"; "gaining only worldly good reward"; T1762, citing the Zhancha Jing T0839) |
| 9.2 That One Tap on the Phone | Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra T1579, fascicle 3 (the four conditions; the dominant condition as "all supports other than the seed"); Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicle 92 (giving takes intention as its head, as the needle leads in sewing a garment) / fascicle 24 (the mind's force, fierce as fire, as poison) / fascicle 61 (rejoicing—without laboring body or speech, by the mind's skillful means alone); Madhyamaka-śāstra T1564, fascicle 3, the chapter on karma (karma is arising-and-ceasing in nature, not abiding even a single moment); Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra T0374, fascicle 19 (one moment of buddha-recollection surpasses a month of offerings); AN 5.36, Kāladāna (the one who rejoices also shares the merit; iii.41) |
| 9.3 The Road You Have Just Walked | Vinaya Mv I.22, the graduated discourse (talk on giving, talk on virtue, talk on heaven; Vin i 35–36); Dīrghāgama T0001, fascicle 20; Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra T1509, fascicle 11 ("giving is the first condition for nirvāṇa"); Shandao, Guānjīng Sìtiē Shū T1753 (the three gifts and the four means of embracing); Samantabhadra Practice-Vows chapter T0293 (the fourfold "exhausted" formula); Vimalakīrti Sūtra T0475, the Shande section; AN 5.36 (rejoicing); Sūtra of the Medicine-Master Tathāgata T0450, the fifth great vow · Pusa Yingluo Benye Jing T1485 (the seam into Volume Three) |