The smallest cell in one's body feels similarly as awesome
as the universal being perceived. It is still a very
small portion of the entire vessel world (器世間).
The living environment of a sentient being, e.g, a birdcage keeping
a bird. In the karmic rebirth of this sentient being, assuming the
life form of a bird is the main requital (正報), and the birdcage,
its vessel world, is the reliance requital (依報).
vessel world - Three-Thousand Large
Thousandfold World (三千大千世界). A galaxy, the educational
district of a Buddha. It consists of a billion small worlds, each
including a Mount Sumeru surrounded by four continents and
interlaying circles of eight oceans and eight mountain ranges. One
thousand such small worlds constitute a Small Thousandfold World.
One thousand Small Thousandfold Worlds constitute a Medium
Thousandfold World. Finally, one thousand Medium Thousandfold
Worlds constitute a Large Thousandfold World. Therefore,
Three-Thousand does not mean 3,000, but 1,000 raised to
the power of 3, as described above. It can also mean that there are
three kinds of Thousandfold World: small, medium, and large.
From the seeds stored in ālaya
consciousness.
true suchness (bhūta-tathatā, 真如). The
changeless true reality of all dharmas, the absolute truth
that they have neither birth nor death. It has other names,
including emptiness, true emptiness,
ultimate emptiness, one appearance, one
flavor, true reality, ultimate reality
(bhūta-koṭi), primal state, Buddha mind, true
mind, inherent pure mind, the Thus-Come One (Tathāgata), the
thus-come store (Tathāgata-garbha), vajra store, dharma-kāya, Buddha nature,
dharma nature, dharma realm, the one true dharma
realm, the highest truth (paramārtha), the great
seal, and the great perfection. One’s body and mental states, and
objects perceived as external, are all manifestations of one’s true
mind, projected through causes and conditions from the pure,
impure, and neutral seeds stored in ālaya
consciousness.
