..续本文上一页anyone of those times ever
see accurately the meaning of the explanations given in sutras
such as this one
And the Conqueror replied,
Subhuti, you should never ask the question you have just asked:
"What will happen in the future, in the days of the last five hundred,
when the Dharma is approaching its final destruction
How could
anyone of those times ever see accurately the meaning of the
explanations given in sutras such as this one
"
I say to you, o Subhuti, that in the future, in the days of the last five
hundred, when the holy Dharma is approaching its final destruction,
there will come bodhisattvas who are great beings, who possess
morality, who possess the fine quality, and who possess wisdom.
And these bodhisattvas who are great beings, o Subhuti, will not be ones
who have rendered honor to but a single Buddha, or who have collected
stores of virtue with a single Buddha. Instead, o Subhuti, they will be ones
who have rendered honor to many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, and
who have collected stores of virtue with many hundreds of thousands of
Buddhas. Such are the bodhisattvas, the great beings, who then will come.
Suppose, o Subhuti, that a person reaches even just a single feeling of
faith for the words of a sutra such as this one. The One Thus Gone,
Subhuti, knows any such person. The One Thus Gone, Subhuti, sees
any such person. Such a person, o Subhuti, has produced, and
gathered safely into themselves, a mountain of merit beyond any
calculation.
Why is it so
Because, Subhuti, these bodhisattvas who are great
beings never slip into any conception of something as a self, nor do
they slip into any conception of something as a living being, nor any
conception of something as being alive, nor any conception of
something as a person.
Subhuti, these bodhisattvas who are great beings neither slip
into any conception of things as things, nor do they slip into
any conception of things as not being things. They neither slip
into any conception of a thought as a conception, nor do they
slip into any conception of a thought as not being a
conception.
Why is it so
Because if, Subhuti, these bodhisattvas who are great
beings were to slip into any conception of things as things, then they
would grasp these same things as being a "self"; they would grasp
them as being a living being; they would grasp them as being
something that lives; they would grasp them as a person.
And even if they were to slip into thinking of them as not
being things, that too they would grasp as being a "self"; and
as being a living being; and as being something that lives; and
as being a person.
Why is it so
Because, Subhuti, the bodhisattvas never hold the Dharma in
the wrong way either. Nor do they hold what is not the Dharma. This then
is what the One Thus Gone meant when he said:
Those who understand that this presentation of the Dharma is
like a ship leave even these teachings of Dharma behind.
What need is there to mention then what they do with that
which is not the Dharma
And the Conqueror said these words as well to the junior monk Subhuti:
Subhuti, what do you think
Is there any such thing as an
enlightenment where Those Gone Thus reach some
incomparable, perfect, and total Buddhahood
And does the
One Thus Gone ever teach any Dharma at all
Then the junior monk Subhuti replied to the Conqueror, in the following
words:
O Conqueror, as far as I can catch the thrust of what the
Conqueror has spoken thus far, then I would have to say that
it is impossible for there to be any such thing as an
enlightenment where Those Gone Thus could ever reach some
incomparable, perfect, and total enlightenment. And it is
impossible as well for there to be any such thing as a Dharma
that the One Thus Gone could ever teach.
And why is t…
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