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never try to gather into themselves great mountains of merit
And the Conqueror replied,
Of course they should gather them in, Subhuti. But they
should never gather them in in the wrong way. And this is
precisely why we can call it "gathering them in."
And suppose, o Subhuti, that someone were to say that "the
One Thus Gone goes, and comes; and he stands, and sits; and
he lies down as well." Such a person has failed to understand
what I am teaching you here.
Why is it so, Subhuti
Because the one we call "One Thus
Gone" neither goes anywhere nor comes from anywhere. And
this is precisely why we can call them "Ones Gone Thus,
Destroyers of the Foe, Perfect and Totally Enlightened Ones."
And I say again to you, Subhuti. Suppose some daughter or
son of noble family were to take all the atoms of dust that
made up all the planets in the great world system, of a
thousand of a thousand of a thousand planets. And suppose
for example that they were to crush each of these atoms into a
pile of even tinier atoms that were equal in number to all these
atoms of the planets.
What do you think, Subhuti
Would the tiny atoms in these
piles be very many
And Subhuti respectfully replied,
O Conqueror, it is so: the tiny atoms in those piles would be
very great in number. And why is it so
Because, o
Conqueror, if such a pile were even possible, then the
Conqueror would never have even bothered to mention any
piles of tiny atoms.
And why is it so
Because the One Thus Gone has said that
the "piles of tiny atoms" described by the Conqueror are piles
that could never exist. And this is precisely why we can call
them "piles of tiny atoms."
And the One Thus Gone has also said that those "planets in a
great world system, a system of a thousand of a thousand of a
thousand planets," are planets that could never exist. This is
precisely why we can call them "planets in a great world
system, a system of a thousand of a thousand of a thousand
planets."
Why is it so
Because, o Conqueror, if there were any such
thing as a planet, then one would have to be grasping to it as
one whole solid thing. And the One Thus Gone has said that
the "tendency to grasp things as one whole solid thing"
described by the One Thus Gone is a kind of grasping that
could never exist anyway. And this is precisely why we can
call it "grasping something as a whole solid thing."
And then the Conqueror said,
O Subhuti, this very tendency to grasp things as one whole
solid thing is nominal; the thing is beyond all words.
Nonetheless those who are still children—common
beings—hold on to it.
And suppose, o Subhuti, that someone were to say: "The One
Thus Gone talks about seeing something as a self. The One
Thus Gone talks about seeing something as a living being. The
One Thus Gone talks about seeing something as something
that lives. And the One Thus Gone talks too about seeing
something as a person." Do you think, Subhuti, that this
would ever be said by someone who was speaking correctly
And Subhuti respectfully replied,
O Conqueror, it would not be so. O You who have Gone to
Bliss, that would not be so. And why is it so
Because, o
Conqueror, the One Gone Thus has said that this same seeing
something as a self described by the One Gone Thus is a way
of seeing things that could never exist anyway. And this is
precisely why we can call it "seeing something as a self."
Then the Conqueror said,
O Subhuti, this is how those who have entered well into the
way of the bodhisattva should understand every single object
in the universe. This is how they should see these things; this
is how they should think of them. They should never live in a
way where they conceive of anything as an object at all, and
thus should they think of things.
Why is it so
Because, o…
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