三心

The three minds, or hearts; various groups are given:

(1) Three assured ways of reaching the Pure Land, by (a) 至誠心 perfect sincerity; (b) 深 profound resolve for it; (c) 廻向接發願心 resolve on demitting one's merits to others.

(2) (a) 根本心 The 8th or ālaya-vijñāna mind, the storehouse, or source of all seeds of good or evil; (b) 依本 the 7th or mano-vijñāna mind, the mediating cause of all taint; (c) 起事心 the ṣaḍāyatana-vijñāna mind, the immediate influence of the six senses.

(3) (a) 入心 (b) 住心 (c) 出心 The mind entering into a condition, staying there, departing.

(4) A pure, a single, and an undistracted mind. There are other groups.