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Because, o Subhuti,
there is no living being at all that Those Gone Thus could ever
free.
And if, o Subhuti, the One Gone Thus ever did free some
living being, then he would be grasping to some self of the
One Gone Thus, and to some living being, or to something that
lives, or to some person of the One Gone Thus.
And the One Gone Thus, o Subhuti, has said that this very act
that we call "grasping to some self" is a grasping to a self that
does not even exist. It is, in fact, something that common
beings, those who are still children, grasp to.
And these same common beings, o Subhuti, those who are still
children, are beings that the One Gone Thus has said never
existed at all. And that”s precisely why we can call them
"common beings."
O Subhuti, what do you think
Should we consider someone
One Gone Thus simply because they possess exquisite marks
And Subhuti respectfully replied,
O Conqueror, it is not so: we should never consider someone
One Gone Thus simply because they possess the exquisite
marks of One Gone Thus.
And the Conqueror said,
O Subhuti, thus it is, and thus is it. We should never consider
someone the One Gone Thus just because they possess
exquisite marks. If we were, Subhuti, to consider someone
One Gone Thus simply because they possessed exquisite
marks, then a Wheel Emperor would have to be One Gone
Thus. As such, we should never consider someone One Gone
Thus simply because they possess exquisite marks.
Then the junior monk Subhuti addressed the Conqueror in the following
words:
As far as I grasp the thrust of what the Conqueror has said, we
should never consider someone One Gone Thus simply
because they possess exquisite marks.
At this point then the Conqueror spoke the following lines of verse:
Whoever sees me in things you can see,
Whoever knows me in sounds to hear,
Is living in error, has given me up;
People like this cannot see me at all.
See that Buddhas are the nature of things.
Our guides are the Dharma bodies.
Those for whom this nature of things
Is beyond the things they know
Will never be able to know.
O Subhuti, what do you think
Suppose a person thought to
themselves that someone was One Gone Thus, a Destroyer of
the Foe, a Perfect and Total Buddha, just because they
possessed the exquisite marks of an Enlightened Being.
Subhuti, you should never think the way they do. This is
because, Subhuti, of the fact that there is no such thing as the
exquisite marks meaning that One Gone Thus, a Destroyer of
the Foe, a Perfect and Total Buddha, has reached their total
enlightenment within the unsurpassed, perfect, and total state
of an Enlightened Being.
O Subhuti, suppose you were to think to yourself that those
who have entered well into the way of the bodhisattva ever
deny any particular thing that exists, or that they imagine that
there is nothing which exists. You should never, Subhuti,
think that this is so. Those who have entered well into the
way of the bodhisattva never deny any particular thing, nor do
they imagine that there is nothing which exists.
And I say to you again, o Subhuti: Suppose that some son or
daughter of noble family were to take planets equal in number
to the drops of water in the Ganges River, and cover them
with the seven kinds of precious things, and offer it as a gift to
someone.
Suppose on the other hand that a particular bodhisattva were
able to gain the state of mastery towards the fact that no object
in the universe has any self-nature, nor ever begins. This
second person would create from his act mountains of merit
that are infinitely greater than those of the first.
I say to you again, o Subhuti, that bodhisattvas never gather
into themselves great mountains of merit.
And the junior monk Subhuti then said,
O Conqueror, do you mean to say tha…
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