..续本文上一页se Those Gone Thus have stated that it could never be a
thing at all. And this is precisely why we can call it a "body."
Because Those Gone Thus have stated that it could never be a
thing at all, we call it a "large body."
And again did the Conqueror speak:
O Subhuti, what do you think
Suppose you counted every
drop of water in the Ganges River, and then had exactly that
many Ganges Rivers. Would the number of drops in this
many Ganges Rivers be very many
And Subhuti respectfully replied,
O Conqueror, if the amount of drops in just this one Ganges
River is so great, then what need mention the amount of drops
in so very many Ganges Rivers
Then the Conqueror said,
O Subhuti, try to imagine it. Try to comprehend it. Think
now of a mass of planets equal in number to the number of
drops in all these Ganges Rivers. And then imagine that some
son or daughter of noble family has come and covered all of
them with the seven kinds of precious substances, and then
gone and made a gift of these planets to the One Gone Thus,
to the Destroyer of the Foe, to the Totally Enlightened One, the
Buddha.
What do you think, Subhuti
Would they create much merit from
such a deed
Subhuti respectfully replied,
O Conqueror, many would it be. o You who have Gone to
Bliss, it would be many. This son or daughter of noble family
would indeed create much merit from such a deed.
And the Conqueror said,
Yes Subhuti, suppose that someone did do this: suppose they
did take all these planets, and cover them with the seven kinds
of precious substances, and offer them as a gift to the One
Gone Thus, the Destroyer of the Foe, the Totally Enlightened
One, the Buddha. And now suppose that someone else held
but a single verse of four lines from this particular presentation
of the Dharma, and explained it to others, and taught it
correctly. This second person would create much more merit
from their action; their merit would be countless, and beyond
all calculation.
And I say to you further, o Subhuti: any place where even just
a single verse of four lines from this particular presentation of
the Dharma is read out loud, or has ever before been read out
loud, thereby becomes a temple; it becomes a place where the
entire world, along with its gods, and men, and demigods, can
come and pay them honor.
Diamond Cutter Sutra
And if this is so, then there is no need to say that any person
who takes up this particular presentation of the Dharma, or
who holds it, or who reads it, or who comprehends it, or who
thinks of it in the proper way, thereby becomes someone who
is truly wondrous. And this is because we can then say that
the Teacher himself is in that place, as is every other spiritual
teacher who has ever lived.
Thus did the Buddha speak.
And then the junior monk Subhuti addressed the following words, with
great respect, to the Conqueror:
O Conqueror, what is the name of this particular presentation
of the Dharma
How are we to consider it
Then the Conqueror spoke the following to the junior monk Subhuti:
Subhuti, this particular presentation of the Dharma is known
as the "perfection of wisdom," and that is how you should
consider it.
Why is it so
Because, o Subhuti, that same perfection of
wisdom spoken by the Ones Thus Gone is a perfection of
wisdom that does not even exist. And this is precisely why we
can call it the "perfection of wisdom."
O Subhuti, what do you think
Is there any dharma at all which the
Ones Thus Gone ever speak
And Subhuti respectfully replied,
O Conqueror, none of the dharmas ever spoken by the Ones Thus
Gone exists at all.
Diamond Cutter Sutra
And the Conqueror spoke again:
O Subhuti, what do you think
If we took all the atoms of
dust that exist in all the planets of the great world system—
a system with a thousand of …
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