..续本文上一页hest perfection; and the highest perfection
which the One Thus Gone now speaks to you is that same
highest perfection which Conquering Buddhas beyond any
number to count have spoken as well. And this is precisely
why we can call it the "highest perfection."
And I say to you further, o Subhuti, that the perfection of
patience spoken by the Ones Thus Gone is a perfection that
does not even exist.
Why is it so
Because, o Subhuti, there was a time when the
King of Kalingka was cutting off the larger limbs, and the
smaller appendages, of my body. At that moment there came
into my mind no conception of a self, nor of a sentient being,
nor of a living being, nor of a person—I had no conception at
all. But neither did I have no conception.
Why is it so
Suppose, o Subhuti, that at that moment any
conception of a self had come into my mind. Then the thought
to harm someone would have come into my mind as well.
The conception of some sentient being, and the conception of
some living being, and the conception of some person, would
have come into my mind. And because of that, the thought to
harm someone would have come into my mind as well.
I see it, o Subhuti, with my clairvoyance: I took, in times past,
five hundred births as the sage called "Teacher of Patience."
And all during that time I never had any conception of a self,
nor of a living being, nor of something being alive, nor of a
person.
And this is why, o Subhuti, that the bodhisattvas who are
great beings give up every kind of conception, and develop
within themselves the Wish to achieve perfect and total
enlightenment.
And they develop the Wish within them without staying in
any of the things you see, nor in sounds, nor in smells, nor in
tastes, nor in the things you can touch, nor in any object of the
thought as well. Neither do they develop this Wish within
them staying in what these objects lack. They develop the
Wish without staying in anything at all.
And why is it so
Because these things to stay in never stay
themselves. And this then is why the One Thus Gone has said
that "Bodhisattvas should undertake the practice of giving
without staying."
And I say to you further, o Subhuti, that this is how
bodhisattvas give all that they have, for the sake of every
living being. And this same conception of anyone as a living
being is a conception that does not exist; when the One Gone
Thus speaks of "every living being," they too are living beings
that do not even exist.
And why is it so
Because, o Subhuti, the One Thus Gone is
one who speaks right. He is one who speaks true. He is one
who speaks precisely what is. The One Thus Gone is one that
speaks, without error, precisely that which is.
And I speak to you further, o Subhuti, of that thing where
Those Gone Thus reach some absolutely total enlightenment;
and of that thing which is the Dharma that they teach. It has
no truth, and it has no deception.
This, Subhuti, is how it is. Think of the example of a man who
has eyes to see, but who is sitting in the dark. He sees nothing
at all. You should consider a bodhisattva who has fallen into
things, and who then practices the act of giving, to be just like
this man.
And now, Subhuti, think of this man, a man who has eyes to
see, as dawn breaks and the sun rises into the sky; think how
then he sees a whole variety of different forms. You should
consider a bodhisattva who has not fallen into things, and who
then practices the act of giving, to be just like this man.
I speak to you further, o Subhuti, of those sons or daughters
of noble family who take up this particular presentation of the
Dharma, or who hold it, or who read it, or who comprehend
it, or who go on to impart it to others in detail, and accurately.
These are the kind of people that the Ones Gone T…
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