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, the eight efforts of abandonment are: faith, desire, diligence, pliancy, mindfulness, awareness, attention, and equanimity. Among them, first, faith arises in attaining samadhi, and desire arises to accomplish it, and diligence arises because of desire. Therefore, if there is diligence, it is certain that faith and desire precede it. These three can be summarized as diligence, which is a method of joy or effort. The second method is pliancy, which makes the body and mind workable and is the nature of helping to accomplish samadhi. Mindfulness and awareness have the same function, so they are combined into one, which is the third method, to prevent distraction from the object of focus. Attention and equanimity are the fourth method, becoming the antidote to conceptualization and afflictions. The six abhijñās are based on the feet of miraculous power to see and realize, which are the five eyes. The ripening result of cultivating the feet of miraculous power is that the physical eye can see all subtle and coarse forms in the three thousand great thousand worlds. The miraculous eye or divine eye is cultivated from the first dhyana up to the fourth dhyana, surpassing the physical eye, and can know all kinds of large and small forms in the ten directions and three times. The eye of wisdom of the noble ones sees the nature of reality, suchness, with non-conceptual wisdom. The Dharma eye knows the words and meanings of all scriptures, such as the sutras, without obstruction. The Buddha's eye directly sees all knowable dharmas included in the three times, as they are and how many they are. The physical eye can see one yojana, and even know hundreds of yojanas and the entire Jambudvipa, as well as the subtle and coarse forms of the three thousand great thousand worlds. The Buddha's physical eye can see all present forms in all the worlds of the ten directions. The divine eye also has two types: karma-born and meditation-born. The first is that the gods obtain very pure faculties born from their own karma, so they can clearly see all forms near and far. Born from meditation, yogis obtain pure faculties born from the elements of the meditation ground through the power of cultivating meditation, and thus can see sentient beings.