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Tushita Heaven

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The only school in the six heavens

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The other five are for pleasure

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Only on this level

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Are there lectures being given

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And students listening

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Previously we discussed Shakra

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The top hotel for those with peak good karma

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Then we discussed Mara

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The top-level inspector of the Desire Realm

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Testing if your awakening is real or fake

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The heaven we discuss today

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Sits between pleasure and testing

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Doing what no one else in this realm does

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Systematic cultivation

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Hello

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Everyone

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I am Wang Lijie

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Let's map this out first

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In Buddhist cosmology

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The Desire Realm has six heavens

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From bottom up: Four Kings, Trayastrimsha

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Yama, Tushita, Nirmanarati, Paranirmita

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These six share one trait

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The beings there still have desires

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But the intensity of desire

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Decreases as the level rises

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The bottom two levels

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Four Kings and Trayastrimsha

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Are on Mount Meru

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Known as Terrestrial Heavens

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Their lifestyle is like human billionaires

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Just with much higher levels of luxury

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Shakra lives in the center of Trayastrimsha

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The four levels above Yama float in space

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Known as Celestial Heavens

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The higher you go

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The thinner the desire

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Beings in the Four Kings Heaven

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Satisfy desire much like humans do

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Requiring physical contact

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It is slightly lighter

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Holding hands is enough

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In Nirmanarati Heaven

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A single glance brings joy

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No external conditions needed

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One can manifest anything with a single thought

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At the highest level, Paranirmita-vasavartin

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you don't even need to think

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Just enjoy the pleasure others create

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Papiya, whom we discussed last time

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Have you noticed?

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From bottom to top

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satisfying desires becomes easier

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and more automated

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Sounds good, right?

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The higher the level, the better

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But there's a huge trap hidden here

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The more effortless the pleasure

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the harder it is to awaken

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Why?

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When does one reflect on life?

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When everything goes well?

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It's when you hit a wall

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In times of pain

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When a gap opens between reality and expectation

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We've discussed predictive coding

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The brain truly learns

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not when predictions are right

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but when they are wrong

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Prediction error is the signal for learning

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That's the problem with heaven

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Heaven is where predictions are always right

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You get whatever you want

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No frustration

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No loss

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No gap

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A system that never fails

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is a system that never iterates

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That's why Buddhism says

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heaven is harder for practice than earth

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Human life is bitter

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but suffering is the catalyst for awakening

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Every pain is a signal

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telling your consciousness

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Your predictive model is wrong

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Time to update

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Heaven is joyful

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but joy is an anesthetic for sleep

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Your model never fails

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You never need to update

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So you never wake up

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In terms of Yogacara seed theory

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What is the nature of heavenly joy

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It consumes your past seeds of good karma

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With every bit of pleasure enjoyed

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Good seeds in the Alaya-vijnana decrease

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But while indulging in pleasure

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You rarely plant new seeds of good karma

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Let alone seeds for liberation

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Because you lack the drive to practice

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You are far too comfortable

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Like someone winning a 200 million lottery

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With more money than they can spend

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They spend every day

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But they do not work

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200 million is a lot

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It can last a long time

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But one day it will run out

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Scriptures describe five signs of fading merit

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Known as the Five Signs of Decay

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The flower crown begins to wither

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Their flowers are usually forever fresh

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It is a signal

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Their heavenly robes become soiled

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Their clothes are naturally dust-free

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They are the first to notice

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Sweat begins to form under the arms

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Heavenly beings do not normally sweat

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The body begins to smell

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Every sign of the Five Decays

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Your good karma balance is empty

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They foresee which realm they will fall into

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Yet they are powerless to change it

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Because during thousands of years in heaven

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Not a single new seed of good karma is sown

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This is the cruelest script in the six realms

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It is not the fires of hell that hurt most

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But the wilting flowers of heaven

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For those in hell have never known comfort

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Without contrast, there is no fall

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But devas fall after millennia of bliss

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That contrast is true devastation

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At this point

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What makes Tushita Heaven different

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Is it not one of the six desire realms

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Tushita is indeed in the desire realm

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Its inhabitants have desires

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And enjoy the five sensory pleasures

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But Tushita has something the others lack

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An Inner Court

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In Sanskrit, Tushita means

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Note the name

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Other realms describe levels of pleasure

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Only Tushita is named Contentment

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What is contentment

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Not "I don't want it anymore"

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But "I clearly know"

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"This is enough"

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In a system chasing refined pleasure

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Contentment itself is a form of clarity

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Tushita is split into Inner and Outer Courts

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The Outer Court is like other heavens

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Devas enjoy sensory pleasures there

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Amidst music and dance

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Celestial maidens use desire to lure them

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Leaving most devas hopelessly addicted

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Is the home of the Successor Bodhisattva

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What is a Successor

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The candidate next in line for Buddhahood

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He is next

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Like a corporate successor

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He has been chosen

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He waits in the Inner Court

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Teaching those around him

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Regarding the timescale of Tushita

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400 human years is one day in Tushita

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Tushita beings live for 4,000 years

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Calculate that for a moment

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4,000 Tushita years in human time

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Is about 576 million years

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What does this number mean

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Maitreya Bodhisattva's waiting time

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Is almost geological in scale

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He has waited this long

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Teaching the Dharma every day

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This patience is a practice itself

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Before Shakyamuni became Prince Siddhartha

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He lived in Tushita's Inner Court

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He watched for the right conditions

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Then chose to be born in Kapilavastu

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Now, the Inner Court's resident

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Is Maitreya Bodhisattva

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What does Maitreya do there

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He teaches the Dharma

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Not just occasionally

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The scriptures use a specific term

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Teaching day and night without end

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In all six Desire Realm heavens

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Only this place has systematic teaching

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The other five are playgrounds

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Only this classroom light stays on

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That is why Tushita is the fourth layer

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Neither the highest nor the lowest

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Motivation to practice is nearly zero

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Tushita is at the perfect balance

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Enough merit to avoid the struggle for survival

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Yet enough contentment to not lose oneself

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I want to expand on a story mentioned before

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Let's look at it in detail today

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In 4th-century India

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There was a man named Asanga

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A key figure in Yogacara history

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Legend says he practiced for 12 years

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Wanting to give up several times

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Through deep meditative concentration

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Every night he ascended to Tushita Heaven

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To hear the Dharma from Maitreya Bodhisattva

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Returning to the human realm by day

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Transcribing every word of Maitreya's teachings

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To pass them on to his disciples

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Great Tang Records on the Western Regions notes this

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Asanga ascended to the celestial palace at night

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Receiving the Yogacarabhumi Sastra from Maitreya

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By day he proclaimed the profound truths to all

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Teaching by day

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Attending class by night

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Perhaps history's most extreme night student

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A core classic taught by Maitreya

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Was the 100-volume Yogacarabhumi Sastra

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One hundred volumes

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One of the largest works in Buddhist history

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An exhaustive report on consciousness phenomenology

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From basic senses to subtle meditative states

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Every phenomenon classified, numbered, and mapped

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Asanga brought it back to the human world

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His brother Vasubandhu developed it further

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Building the Yogacara system we have spent

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Over ten videos just beginning to unpack

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Have you ever wondered

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Why Maitreya didn't just come down to teach

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Why Asanga had to fly up to him

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The scriptures explain

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Maitreya's task is to wait

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Until the world's conditions are fully ripe

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Only then will he descend to become Buddha

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He waits in the Inner Court

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Teaching those destined to reach him there

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The story has a deeper meaning

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The human world is too noisy

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Those precise models of consciousness

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Need a noise-free channel to be transmitted

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Tushita's Inner Court is that clear channel

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Asanga tuned his frequency through deep meditation

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Downloading an entire operating system

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Then returning to Earth to translate it

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Whether you believe the legend is secondary

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What matters is

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This "downloaded" content

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Is one of history's most precise cognitive models

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So precise that neuroscience and AI are still catching up

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More interestingly

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Maitreya worship was once more popular than Amitabha's

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The laughing, big-bellied Maitreya you see today

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It's actually a Sinicized image post-Song Dynasty

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The true Maitreya Bodhisattva

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Was a major thinker and practitioner in Indian Buddhism

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Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties

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Eminent monks aspiring for the Tushita Inner Court

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Far outnumbered those seeking the Pure Land

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From the Eastern Jin to the Tang Dynasty

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Many masters' final wish wasn't the Pure Land

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But to reach the Tushita Inner Court

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Master Dao'an of the Eastern Jin

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First to standardize sutra translation in China

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Vowed to be reborn in Tushita

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Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty

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Who spent 17 years traveling for the true sutras

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Left these final words

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May the merit and wisdom I have cultivated

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Be shared with all sentient beings

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To be reborn together in Maitreya's inner circle

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And serve the Compassionate One

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'Dushiduo' is another transliteration of Tushita

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Xuanzang spent his life on Yogacara studies

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His final choice of destination

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Was not for comfort

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But to keep learning by Maitreya's side

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Master Kuiji

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Xuanzang's most important disciple

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Actual founder of the Yogacara school

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Also vowed to be reborn in Tushita

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Do you see the pattern here?

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The top cognitive scientists in Buddhist history

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At the final moment of their lives

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Chose not a place without pain

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But a place where classes continue

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They knew the Pure Land was more comfortable

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But they chose the classroom over the resort

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What does this show?

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It shows that in their minds

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Understanding is more important than satisfaction

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Continuing to learn

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Is more important than arriving

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Why did Amitabha faith eventually surpass Maitreya's?

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Because the Pure Land has a lower entry barrier

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Just chanting 'Amitabha' is enough

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It doesn't require deep meditative skill

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But to enter the Tushita Inner Court

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You need a foundation of practice

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An affinity with Maitreya Bodhisattva

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And a sincere desire to learn

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One is an escalator

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The other requires climbing the stairs

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The masses choose the escalator

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But the top practitioners

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Choose to climb the stairs

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Because they know

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The climb itself is the practice

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Looking back at this series

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Śakra, Pāpman, and Tuṣita

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The picture becomes clear

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Śakra represents the ceiling of good karma

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The peak of ultimate merit

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But his problem is

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His merit is being consumed

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Pāpman represents the ultimate test of desire

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Testing your insight with refined pleasure

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Tuṣita represents a third possibility

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Within the heavenly comfort zone

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Choosing to keep learning and aware

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Three heavenly roles

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Three relationships with merit

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Śakra is spending

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Pāpman is taxing

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Maitreya is investing

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This reminds me of a real-world parallel

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Do you know people like this

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They have financial freedom

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No longer need to work for money

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Logically, they could just relax

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But they don't

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They choose to keep learning

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Keep creating

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Keep tackling harder problems

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Not because they lack anything

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But because they are content yet restless

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Enough of what they have

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But for the unknown

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Always staying hungry

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This is the spirit of Tuṣita's Inner Court

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Contentment

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But never stopping learning

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Not because it's not enough

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But because after knowing enough

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The truly valuable work just begins

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I am actually that kind of person

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Doing angel investing

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Financial pressure is low

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Logically, I could retire

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But I haven't

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I spend hours on consciousness, Buddhism, AI, physics

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Not because they make more money

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But because the world's foundation

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The question of how things work

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keeps me from stopping

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It is not diligence

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It is curiosity driving me

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Curiosity is the wheel that keeps turning after satisfaction

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But I want to leave one final question

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Tushita's Inner Court is the only practice site in the Desire Realm

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But it is still within the Desire Realm

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Maitreya has not yet become a Buddha

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He is still waiting

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Waiting for human conditions to ripen

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Waiting for the time to descend

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A person who is waiting

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Even if waiting for something great

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Is still in a state of being unfinished

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Do you remember?

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The Buddha descended from Tushita Heaven

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He left that classroom

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Was born into the human world

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Endured asceticism

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Experienced doubt

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And finally awakened under the Bodhi tree

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He did not awaken in the Tushita classroom

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He was in the human world

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Under that tree

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Amidst real soil and real pain

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He awakened

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No matter how good the classroom

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It is not the exam hall

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No matter how neat the notes

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If not verified in this world of noise and contradiction

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In a real world of moments that break you

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Those notes will always just be notes

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This may be the deepest design in Buddhist cosmology

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Heaven is a reward

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But rewards run out

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Hell is a punishment

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But punishments also end

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Only the human world

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With its mix of joy and sorrow

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Is the only exam hall where one can awaken

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What happens in Tushita's Inner Court

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Is simulating human learning conditions in heaven

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Maitreya is working hard

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But a heavenly environment is still heavenly

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To truly graduate

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One must descend to the human world

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Tushita's Inner Court is the best prep room

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But the exam

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Only takes place in the human world

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Where do you think you are now

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Enjoying the comfort zone of Indra's Heaven

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Or being tested in Mara's examination room

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Or perhaps you are already in an

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Inner Court you haven't realized yet

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Maybe the videos you watch daily

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The books you read

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The questions you ponder

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Are the Inner Court you've built for yourself

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If so

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Don't forget the next step

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Step out of the classroom

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Go to the Bodhi tree in the human world

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And take a seat

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I am Wang Lijie

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See you next time