Half 6 -2
“Subhuti, I, the Realised One know and see all. All these sentient beings will attain infinite blessing this fashion.”
Commentary:
The infinite blessing will not be given by the Buddha nor can it’s taken away by another person. We’re already the infinite blessing itself and are surrounded by it on the similar time. What issues is whether or not we are able to recognise it or not. So, attaining infinite blessing this fashion refers to discerning infinite blessing on studying, or listening to the Buddha’s phrases and never getting it anew from outdoors. The Buddha’s instructing is that all the things seen and heard is nothing however infinite blessing and that anybody can get pleasure from it provided that we are able to recognise it by seeing all issues as they’re in the identical means the Buddha sees all issues.
What needs to be engraved on our hearts is that ‘all issues’, with out exception, contains not solely these phrases we’re studying now but additionally ourselves.
Pupil: “What’s the infinite blessing?”
Grasp: “It isn’t infinite blessing.”
Pupil: “What’s it then?”
Grasp: “Infinite blessing.”
©Boo Ahm
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