A. Initially all the pieces is the Buddha, and there’s nothing else besides the Buddha, which we’ve got divided into many by utilizing imaginary traces and put labels on them. Though every of the numerous seems to be completely different from each other and has a unique title, all of them are basically the identical because the Buddha. After we, not conscious of this truth, consider the numerous various types and names as actual and fix ourselves to them, the types and names are known as illusions. The truth is, though all the pieces that we see and listen to is the Buddha, we don’t recognise it as a result of we’re deluded by illusions. So, historic masters would say that the Buddha is hidden in illusions. This is the reason it’s mentioned that every one illusions are seeds of the Buddha.
Scholar: “How can I distinguish an phantasm from the Buddha after I see one thing?”
Grasp: “What modifications is an phantasm, and what doesn’t change is the Buddha.”
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