Wisdom of Magnetism

I was re-looking at Doubt, and had come across this saying by Gaofeng Yuanmiao 高峰原妙 (1238-1295) from his Essentials of Chan:

“It is certain that the more faith you have, the more doubt you will have” (決能便恁麽信去.便恁麽疑去)"

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I wanted to see more related information to this, and ran a search in google for the characters (決能便恁麽信去.便恁麽疑去), and found 2 results, only one of which was unique and interesting.

I came across this page, and then ran it through Google Translate and it became this.

While this is obviously going to be a broken quote given that it ran through translation, I was curious if anyone can identify what this following quote is from and where I can look more into it.

"If there is not a mistake in the land of the heart, it is the command of magneticity. If there is no confusion in the land of mind, it is the nature of magnetism. If there is no folly in the heart of the earth, it is the wisdom of magnetism."

What that brings to mind to me, is Amitabha (who is the Buddha of the Pure Land), and according to Wikipedia: "Amitābha is known for his longevity attribute, magnetising red fire element, the aggregate of discernment, pure perception and the deep awareness of emptiness of phenomena."

Amitābha means "Infinite Light" so Amitābha is also called "The Buddha of Immeasurable Life and Light".

Amitabha is of course symbolic of the Fire element, and on the Five Dhyani Buddhas he represents the Lotus, the West, meditation, magnetization, summer, and 妙観察智, Myōkanza chi: The wisdom of observation.

The Wisdom of Observation deals with the Sixth Consciousness which is transformed into that Wisdom.

"A core teaching of Chan/Zen Buddhism describes the transformation of the Eight Consciousnesses into the Four Wisdoms. In this teaching, Buddhist practice is to turn the light of awareness around, from misconceptions regarding the nature of reality as being external, to kenshō, "directly see one's own nature". Thus the Eighth Consciousness is transformed into the Great Perfect Mirror Wisdom, the Seventh Consciousness into the Equality (Universal Nature) Wisdom, the Sixth Consciousness into the Profound Observing Wisdom, and First to Fifth Consciousnesses into the All Performing (Perfection of Action) Wisdom."

Does anyone have further information on Magnetism or the Wisdom of Magnetism in Zen, Chan, Seon, or Thien texts?

Submitted October 10, 2017 at 01:26AM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2gpCX0y