A. This means that the Buddha’s instructing is so nice that when one hears it, all one’s illusions flip into enlightenment. We will doubt why we nonetheless don’t attain enlightenment though now we have heard so muchabout it for a few years. We will discover a solution to our query once we think about the Buddha’s phrases ‘Not a phrase have I stated’. Because of this the core of his instructing is just not in his phrases however past them and that now we have struggled solely with the phrases. Evaluating his phrases to a dry tree department, historical masters would say that we should always not attempt in useless to squeeze juice out of a dry tree department.
Pupil: “How ought to I hear the Buddha’s phrases?”
Grasp: “Hear the entire and never the half.”
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