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Date Posted: 07:53
Author: knonymous - 30 May 2002
Subject: Lankavatara sutra beg

The second verse of the Lankavatara Sutra (the first just sets the scene...in my own unenlightened opinion..that the living buddha is there((AND THAT IS SPECIAL)), there are lots of bodhisattvas and arhats there, along with many bhikshus..not to mention that the bodhisattvas there are also Mahasattvas)! :

The Blessed One, knowing of the mental agitations going on in the minds of those assembled (like the surface of the ocean stirred into waves by the passing winds), and his great heart moved by compassion, smiled and said: In the days of old tathagatas of the past who were Arhats and fully-enlightened Ones came to the Castle of Lanka on Mount Malaya and discoursed on the Truth of Noble Wisdom that is beyond the reasoning knoweldge of the philosophers as well as being beyond the understanding of ordinary disciples and masters; and which is realisable only within the inmost consciousness; for your sakes, I too would discourse on the same Truth. All that is seen in the world is devoid of effort and action because all things in the world are like a dream, or like an image miraculously projected. This is not comprehended by the philosophers and the ignorant, but those who thus see things see them truthfully. Those who see things otherwise walk in discrimination and, as they depend on discrimination, they cling to dualism. The world as seen by discrimination is like seeing one's own image reflected in a mirror, or one's shadow, or the moon reflected in water, or an echo heard in the valley. People grasping their own shadows of discrimination become attached to this thing and that thing and failing to abandon dualism they go on forever discriminating and this never attain tranquility. By tranquility is meant Oneness, and Oneness gives birth to the highest Samadhi which is gained by entering into the realm of Noble Wisdom that is realisable only within one's inmost consciousness.

A Buddhist Bible

Dwight Godddard, pages 277 and 278

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Re: Lankavatara sutra beg -- Hendrik - 30 May 2002, 07:54
- Re: Lankavatara sutra beg -- knonymous - 30 May 2002, 07:55