Half 3
The Buddha mentioned to Subhuti, “The Bodhisattvas ought to give up their minds thus: All types of sentient beings — be they born from eggs, born from wombs, born from moisture, or born from transmutation, be they materials, immaterial, considering or non-thinking, or neither considering nor non-thinking — I shall have all of them enter good nirvana with out the rest and thus liberate all of them. Though I liberate innumerable, numerous, infinite sentient beings, not a single sentient being is in truth liberated.”
“Why not? Subhuti, if the Bodhisattvas have photographs of self, photographs of particular person, photographs of a being, photographs of a liver of life, they don’t seem to be Bodhisattvas.”
Commentary:
‘Have photographs’ means to be deluded by photographs, illusions. The Bodhisattvas right here implies the enlightened who usually are not deluded by any photographs. So, ‘if the Bodhisattvas have photographs, they don’t seem to be Bodhisattvas’ implies that if the Bodhisattvas are deluded by illusions, they don’t seem to be Bodhisattvas.
This signifies that the Bodhisattvas, the enlightened do all the pieces with out doing. That’s, they don’t assume that they’ve finished one thing, irrespective of what number of good issues they might do, as a result of they know that all the pieces is empty. So, historical masters would say that the enlightened ought to behave with none hint left behind, simply as a chook flies leaving no hint within the air.
In on a regular basis life, we sentient beings have a tendency to recollect and really feel happy with our behaviours that we predict are good and righteous. The enlightened, the Bodhisattvas neither bear in mind nor really feel happy with them as a result of they don’t assume they did them since they see all of them as empty. They by no means let even the suitable hand know what the suitable hand does.
Even when they’re unfairly spoken sick of, or blamed for what they didn’t do, they neither really feel chagrined nor lose their mood since they don’t seem to be deluded by phrases, illusions.
Pupil: “How would the Bodhisattvas learn this Sutra?”
Grasp: “They’d not be deluded by the illusions of phrases.”
©Boo AhmAll writing ©Boo Ahm. All photographs ©Simon Hathaway
