The Great Calming and Contemplation by Zhiyi — the foundational text of the Chinese Tiantai school, describing the theory and practice of meditative insight (śamatha-vipaśyanā) and the nature of the mind.
Mind encompasses the three thousand realms: every moment of mind contains all possible worlds; the ordinary mind is not something to be transcended but the very site of enlightenment. One of the most systematic philosophies of mind and meditation in Chinese Buddhism.
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