the One Gone Thus has said could never exist. And this is
precisely why we can even call them "marks of an Enlightened
Being."
And the Conqueror said,
O Subhuti, what do you think
Does the One Thus Gone ever
think to himself, "Now I will teach the Dharma
" If you think
he does, then I tell you, o Subhuti, that you should never look
at it that way, for there doesn”t exist any Dharma that the One
Thus Gone ever teaches.
Subhuti, anyone who ever says that "The One Thus Gone
teaches the Dharma" is talking about something that does not
even exist; they are completely mistaken, and they are denying
who, I am.
Why is it so
Because, o Subhuti, the teaching of the Dharma
that you are thinking of when you say "teaching of the
Dharma" is a "teaching of the Dharma" that does not exist at
all.
And then the junior monk again addressed the Conqueror, in the following
words:
O Conqueror, will there be, in days to come, any living being
who ever hears a teaching of the Dharma like this and who
believes completely what it says
And the Conqueror replied,
O Subhuti, such beings will not be living beings, nor will they
not be a living being. Why is it so
Because, o Subhuti, the
things we call "living beings" are living beings that the Ones
Gone Thus have said are not. And that is precisely why we
can call them "living beings."
O Subhuti, what do you think
Is there any such thing as
Ones Gone Thus reaching their total enlightenment within the
unsurpassed, perfect, and total state of a Buddha
The junior monk Subhuti replied,
O Conqueror, there could never be any such thing as the Ones
Gone Thus reaching their total enlightenment within the
unsurpassed, perfect, and total state of a Buddha.
And then the Conqueror said,
O Subhuti, thus it is, and thus is it. There is no such thing, not
in the least: it is something non-existent. And that is precisely
why we can even call it the "unsurpassed, perfect, and total
state of a Buddha."
I say to you further, o Subhuti, that this thing too is completely
equal; there is nothing at all about it which is not equal. This
too is precisely why we can call it the "unsurpassed, perfect,
and total state of a Buddha." This unsurpassed, perfect, and
total state of a Buddha is "completely equal" in being
something without a self, and without a living being, and
without something that lives, and without any person. Every
single thing which is virtue leads to this total enlightenment.
O Subhuti, the One Gone Thus has said that these same things
of virtue that we are talking about when we speak of "things
of virtue" are things of virtue that don”t even exist. And this is
precisely why we can call them "things of virtue."
And I say to you further, o Subhuti: think of all the number of
universal mountains that you would find on all the planets of
this great world system: a system with a thousand of a
thousand of a thousand planets. And suppose that some
daughter or son of noble family were to pile together the same
number of heaps of the seven precious things, each heap the
same size as the mountain, and offer it as a gift to someone.
Suppose that someone else were to take up, and teach to
others, even so little as a single verse of four lines from this
perfection of wisdom. I tell you, o Subhuti, that the mountain
of created by the first person would not come to even a
hundredth part of the mountain of merit created by the
second; it would not come to any of the parts we spoke of
before, all the way up to saying that there would be no reason
to attempt any comparison between the two.
Subhuti, what do you think
Do the Ones Thus Gone ever
think to himself, "I am going to free all living beings"
If you
think that they do, then I tell you, o Subhuti, you should never
look at it like this. And why is i…
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