 10th state: Both Tendai and Kegon for Kūkai however lack the crucial element of direct experiential understanding to truly realize what they preach. One must thus proceed further by means of bodily ritual practice provided by the next and final state: Mantrayāna: “The mind of secret sublimity” (himitsu shōgon-shin). This is the state of Shingon, whose esoteric teachings and bodily experiential practice constitute the summit of the development of the mind. At this summit hosshin seppō is revealed and one attains sokushinjōbutsu through the micro-macro-cosmic correlativity of the three mysteries and through kaji. 