Summary of the Five Developments

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Also known as the: Five Aggregates, Five Skandhas, Five Sources of clinging

Five developments are Empty

Because Illusion being is Empty
So our feelings,thinking,
Actions, and experience are all Empty

In Empty , Heart is free and Joy , out of Ego Dream illusion and relief all suffering and pain , into No beginning No end Pure Dharma of Kindness Heart Begins
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The Five Developments can be separated into Illusion Being and Consciousness.

The process of consciousness connecting to Illusion Being (the energy information of the universe, which is also called “all the appearing form”) begins with the progression from receiving to thinking (memories, analyses, organises, decides, intends). After this thinking process is completed, we act or react accordingly. We won’t move more than what we calculate.

Part is calculated by subconsciousness (feeling) and part by mind/brain consciousness (thinking).

When the calculation from either one is complete, the action will become a habit. All this action comes from receiving material information. Then, it becomes an action or reaction, and that forms awareness. If we don’t act completely, we are not completely aware of what is happening.

So, the Five Developments is the relationship between materials and consciousness.

If you can see each development as empty – not empty as in non-existence, but empty as in purity and knowing the true essence of each one – then you can purify the five developments and be free.

First purification: Illusion Being

Illusion Being itself doesn’t have to purified because it has no good and no bad: it can be joyful or it can be hellish. It is our possessiveness towards material things or to other beings that has to be purified.

To purify is not to give up, because to give up means that you already think that you can hold something. Rather, it is to realise what Illusion Being truly is, and then this will make you never want to grab any part of Illusion Being.

Illusion Being is our teacher.

Illusion Being is the continually changing process of illusion power that connects to our consciousness, appearing as whatever our consciousness wants to experience and would like to have.

So Illusion Being itself is neither good nor bad. Good and bad come from our inability to see through the illusion to the true meaning and function of Illusion Being. Instead of seeing it as a teacher and learning from it, we see it as the reason for our existence and actually become possessive of it.

For example, good or beautiful materials are neither good nor bad. If you truly need it and you have it, then it’s good (or neutral), but if you take more than you need then it becomes greed.

So purifying Illusion Being doesn’t mean that you have to give up anything. It is just allowing yourself to realise the true function of Illusion Being; that its power provides no opportunity to get it, and if you can’t get it, then trying to get it is stupid.

When you understand the reality, you will never want to be possessive towards any form of Illusion Being, be it a human being, a car, or anything else.

One day, you will even lose your own Illusion Being four-element body, so it’s important to see through the illusion and understand that life is just for learning. It is an experience, not an occasion for being lost in your desire to find, grab, and hold.

Trying to find something can occur even when you think you are being wise. Looking for truth is a possessive act that creates illusion, so stop looking for it. Realise that everything can be truth in a different way, from different people, and different angles, rather than seeking just your own ego truth, then you will see all the truth.

If you see through Illusion Being, then the rest will automatically happen.

Second purification: Receiving

In the beginning, the reason we want to receive is pure: we want to be aware of what is going on. Later, it is more than this: the receiving is a greedy habit and that makes us receive the things which cause us suffering. We receive the things which are not necessary to have in life: greed, hate, and stupidity.

We receive through our own creation. First, we create greed, hate, and stupidity; then we receive them; then we suffer by holding onto them. So the receiving power itself is neither good nor bad; it is the blind habit of creating greed, hate, and stupidity which is bad. We have to learn to stop receiving and accepting blindness. When we don’t accept blindness, then the blindness will not come anymore. Only then will the receiving power become purified, in a totally wise way.

So you are not possessive of Illusion Being, and your receiving power is purified in a wise way, that is already two.

Third purification: Thinking

Thinking power comes from greed, desire, personal emotion and the illusion physical ego I.

Thinking power normally supports all of this. When it supports all this it is actually just a slave of this, as the essence of this direction is not pure. It’s like smelling cow shit and calling it sandalwood: the essence is still stinky; it is not possible to honestly say that it is sweet.

So if the intention behind the thinking power – where the thinking habit comes from – is all from greed, hate, and stupidity, or from desire emotion, or personal physical ego, then the thinking power cannot be purified.

When thinking power comes from none of these things and is truly just being, not looking for the truth, but observing what truth is (it can’t be looking for the truth as we already said: this is the type of greed called Mind/Brain Consciousness Possessive to Ideas) then it becomes a pure observer.

From pure observation, truth will appear by itself. If you look for truth, truth will never appear.

When you are looking for truth, you already have created what you want to be searching for; you have already created illusion so you never see any other truth. The truth is always there, able to be observed from every other angle, but you are stuck in your illusion.

So when thinking stops seeking and you get rid of this essence trick (which is from greed), when you let it go, you turn the thinking power into pure observing. This thinking power will help you patiently see everything from every angle and wisdom will appear.

So, you don’t have to “get” wisdom. It will grow when you are totally pure and calm, observing all angles and all the truth. When this happens, thinking will be purified from all greed, desire, and personal ego.

Fourth purification: Act or React

So, you start with blindness, greed, desire, and personal emotion. Because your thinking comes from this, it’s an ego style of thinking and all your action and reaction becomes a blind habit.

Use your pure observing power to observe your habit. You don’t have to judge, you just have to observe by what you know about the eternal truth of life. Use what you have learned from Buddhism to examine every habit you have until your heart knows the truth, whether the habit has good meaning and function, or whether it is towards greed, hate, stupidity, and blindness ego.

When you see clearly, the wisdom will naturally choose a spiritual direction and the blind habit will disappear by itself. If you try to go against it, try to hate it, try to destroy it, your thinking won’t work as you have already created another bad habit, another anger, stress, or Ego I that you want to destroy.

So to purify a blindness bad habit, you cannot judge that habit; you just have to be sincere with the eternal truth of wisdom, and analyse all your habits: observing and observing until the answer appears from your heart.

When the answer appears from heart, the bad habit will disappear by itself. If you use another ego bad habit to clear out the bad habit, it’s like using a dirty cloth to clean your face: it will just get dirtier.

So to purify blind action, you cannot simply make the purification a discipline: you have to take time to observing it with a sincere heart and eternal wisdom. Ask yourself “Why?” “Why do I have this habit?”

At some point, if you realise that the habit is not what your pure heart ever wanted, was built in a blind way by your own greedy choices or by other people’s influence over you, then the pure heart will awaken, make a new decision, and release the blind habit.

Fifth purification: Awareness

When the first four developments have been purified, the awareness will come that your life is no longer about looking for wisdom because you have already become the wisdom!

You will realise there is no wisdom to get and there is no wisdom to hold. This is the true wisdom of life: there is nothing to get, rather it is being, being the pure wisdom, being the pure observer, being the pure compassion towards every life.

You have purified yourself because you want to be out of suffering. Being pure compassion leads you to realise that every other life wants to be out of suffering, too. So when the first four developments are successfully purified, the awareness will bloom inside you. You will have a new awareness that life is in the spiritual direction; you will surely become a Buddha.

Finally, the Four Eternal Hearts is not an idea; the Four Eternal Hearts is you. It is your true consciousness, your pure consciousness in the process of growing stronger, learning to become wiser and more compassionate through your free-will wise choice.

Written by Simon.