AWARENESS: SHARPENING UNDERSTANDING

IN CONSTRUCTION    

        As Tsung-mi comments, [ 'Awareness'] points to its essence. This word is right on the mark, no other would do.

          Tsung-mi's distinction between name and essence emphasizes the fundamental qualitative difference between abstract and experiential

understanding.

        Chih directly points to the Mind itself, rather than1.

TSUNG-MI'S HISTORICAL EXPLANATION

    "numinous Awareness"  (ling-chih(e))

    "numinous Awareness unobscured" (ling-chih pu-mei(f))

    "ever-present Awareness"  (ch'ang-chih(g)) , 

    "empty tranquil Awareness"    (k'ung-chi[chih]

        chih(h)) tranquil is the empty

 tranquil Mind transmitted

.

 the ultimate source

        (yuan(i)) of both phenomenal reality and

Tsung-mi identifies it with True  Nature (chen-hsing(j)),  Mind Ground

        (hsin-ti(k)), and tathaagatagarbha (ju-lai-tsang(l)).

MIND AND AWARENESS

 Not interested in his defence of Bodhidharma

         being a mere name representing it.