"If a person’s vision, imaginative cultivation of the vision, and the enactment of this vision is grounded, does not become the playground for spiritual death; But as long as he is not grounded, He will be the playground for the eighteen kinds of spiritual death. When vision falters and becomes ungrounded the subject-object dichotomy with its five poisons of emotional pollution arises. When the imaginative cultivation of the vision becomes ungrounded and falters Two kinds of spiritual death, depression and ebullience, arise. When the enactment of the vision becomes ungrounded and falters, Seven kinds of spiritual death affect the enactment. When vision, imaginative cultivation of the vision, and the enactment of the vision become ungrounded The four kinds of spiritual death affecting his dignity arise; Thus, when is ungrounded He becomes the playground for spiritual death. Even if there is self-originated originary awareness present in such a person. This person is like a prince walking among commoners."

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