A. Because of this if you learn the Sutras, you, as an alternative of being entrenched in mental understanding, ought to be capable to see every phrase because the operate of the true-Self. When you can’t see every phrase in that method, you aren’t actually studying the Sutras however quite enjoying with the illusions of the Sutras. That is towards the aim of the Sutras because the core of the Sutras is that we shouldn’t be deluded by phrases, even the Buddha’s phrases.
Satirically, while advising individuals to not be deluded by phrases, the historic Buddha himself spoke quite a few phrases in order that he would possibly educate individuals to not be deluded by phrases. In the long run, he stated on his deathbed, “Not a phrase have I stated” to stop individuals from being deluded by his phrases. This, it may be stated, reveals how tough it isn’t to be deluded by phrases. For this reason the historic Buddha stated within the Lotus Sutra that the core of his phrases is so incomprehensible that it’s exhausting for even the sensible like Subhuti to have a correct understanding of it.
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