The Awakening of the Bodhi Heart
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The Bodhisattva's View on Constructed Existence
In Buddhist thought, generally speaking, these five scumtas are regarded as exhausting our entire psychophysical existence. You must be able to reel them off and know what you're talking about, otherwise you don't get very far with Buddhist philosophy. And this is why at the very beginning of the heart sutra, what does it say? What does the text say? That the bodhisattva, avalu kajeshwarā, coursing in the profound perfection of wisdom, looked down, looked down on conditioned existence, and saw five heaps, five scumTas. Just what he saw, no more than that.
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