Merely being shown that one possesses the ability to find gold is not enough. One must, first of all, find real goal then extract it and use the gold to dispel one's suffering as a result of poverty. In the same way, being told about the One Mind or being taught that the nature of mind is the enlightened essence is not sufficient. We have to behold this One Mind, directly, by ourselves. When we actually converge with the One Mind, which is the transmission of Mind essence, what is important is to practice thereby attaining the more of it (the extraction process).
Putting the aforementioned in a different way, recognizing the One Mind doesn't make one a fully enlightened Buddha any more than simply discovering gold dispels one's poverty and hunger all at once. One must put the previous recognition of the One Mind to use which entails practice (the extraction process), that is, making the One Mind the more in contrast with our former habit-energy (vāsanā) which still dominates our decisions and life, binding us ever to the conditioned. Therefore, the practice of right samadhi entails bringing up our initial gnosis of the One Mind again and again, day in and day out. In this way we become the more, reaching true Buddhahood.
The Daśabhūmika Sutra is telling us that the Bodhisattva's 'enlightenment charge', for want of a better term, gets progressively larger as he advances by means of samadhis going from a hundred samadhis to a hundred million samadhis—the amount of samadhi constituting a stage. Leaving the numbers aside, I think the important point is to see this practice as something like a gold mining extraction process: separating the gold from the rock that conceals it. One could say that we are bringing the light into our lives leaving behind the darkness of ignorance; the light eventually becoming sun-like.
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