Excerpt From The Pages Of Wisdom of Buddha: The Samdhinirmochana Mahayana Sutra
From the chapter "The Questions of Manjushri": (The Bhagavan speaking) "Manjushri, all afflicted phenomena and purified phenomena are unmoving and without personhood. Therefore, I teach that phenomena are without activity in all their aspects. Further, it is not the case that afflicted phenomena are previously afflicted and subsequently purified. Nor is it the case that purified phenomena have been subsequently purified, after having been previously afflicted. Childish ordinary beings, relying on views that predispose them toward exaggerated adherence to the phenomena within the collection of errant tendencies and to an own-being of persons, grasp at 'I' and 'mine'. Due to this, they mistakenly conceive 'I see,' 'I hear,' 'I smell,' 'I experience,' 'I touch,' 'I know,' 'I eat,' 'I act,' 'I am afflicted,' and 'I am purified.' Those who understand reality just as it is, having fully abandoned the collection of errant tendencies, have no basis for any of the afflictions. They attain a body that is very pure, free from elaborations, uncompounded, and free from manifest activity. Manjushri, know that this is the entire quintessential meaning." Then the Bhagavan spoke these verses: "Afflicted phenomena and pure phenomena are all without activity and personhood. Thus I explain that they are without activity: not purified or afflicted in the past or future. Relying on views that predispose one to the collection of errant tendencies, one grasps at 'I' and 'mine'; one thinks 'I see,' 'I eat,' 'I act,' 'I am afflicted,' and 'I am purified.' Knowing reality just as it is, abandoning the collection of errant tendencies, one attains a pure body with no basis for the afflictions, free from elaborations, and uncompounded."
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