..续本文上一页he time of the One Gone Thus, the Destroyer of
the Foe, the Perfect and Totally Enlightened One named
"Maker of Light"—there came 840 billion billion Buddhas. And
I was able to please them all, and never disturb their hearts.
But then Subhuti, there are those who, in the days of the last
five hundred, will take up this sutra, and they will hold it, and
they will read it, and they will comprehend it. And I tell you,
o Subhuti, that the great mountains of merit that I collected
from pleasing all those Buddhas, all those Conquerors, and
from never disturbing their hearts, would not come to a
hundredth of the mountains of merit that the ones to come will
create. Nor would it come to a thousandth part, nor one part
in a hundred thousand, nor any other countable part, any part
at all; the difference could never be put in numbers; there is no
example I could use; no comparison; no reason at all to
attempt any comparison.
And suppose, o Subhuti, that I were to describe just how many
mountains of virtue would come to be possessed by one of
these women or men of noble family, the ones to come who
will create those mountains of merit. The living beings who
heard me would go mad; their minds would be thrown into
chaos.
I tell you further, o Subhuti; and you must understand it: this
presentation of the Dharma is absolutely inconceivable; and
how its power ripens in the future is nothing less than
absolutely inconceivable as well.
O Conquering One, what of those who have entered well into
the way of the bodhisattva
How shall they live
How shall
they practice
How should they keep their thoughts
And the Conqueror replied,
Subhuti, this is how those who have entered well into the way
of the bodhisattva must think to themselves as they feel the
Wish to achieve enlightenment:
I will bring every single living being to total
nirvana, to that realm beyond all grief, where
they no longer possess any of the heaps of things
that make up a suffering person. Yet even if I do
manage to bring all these living beings to total
nirvana, there will be no living being at all who
was brought to their total nirvana.
And why is it so
Because, Subhuti, if a bodhisattva were to
slip into conceiving of someone as a living being, then we
could never call them a "bodhisattva." And so too if they were
to slip ino thinking of someone in all the ways up to thinking
of them as a person, neither then could we ever call them a
"bodhisattva."
Why is it so
Because, Subhuti, there doesn”t even exist any
such thing as what we have called "those who have entered
well into the way of the bodhisattva."
O Subhuti, what do you think
Was there anything at all
which the One Thus Gone ever received from the One Thus
Gone called "Maker of Light," which helped bring about my
total enlightenment within the unsurpassed, perfect, and total
state of a Buddha
Thus did the Conqueror speak, and then did the junior monk Subhuti reply
to him, as follows:
O Conqueror, there never could have been anything at all
which the One Thus Gone ever received from the One Thus
Gone called "Maker of Light" which helped bring about your
total enlightenment within the unsurpassed, perfect, and total
state of a Buddha.
Thus did he speak, and then did the Conqueror reply to the junior monk
Subhuti, in the following words:
O Subhuti, it is thus, and thus is it. There is nothing at all
which the One Thus Gone ever received from the One Thus
Gone called "Maker of Light" which helped me bring about my
total enlightenment within the unsurpassed, perfect, and total
state of a Buddha.
And if there had been, o Subhuti, anything of the sort where
the One Thus Gone reached his total enlightenment, well then
the One Gone Thus, "Maker of Light," could never have
granted me my final prediction, by sa…
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