Half 6-3
“Why? All these sentient beings haven’t any extra picture of self, picture of individual, picture of sentient being, or picture of soul. They haven’t any picture of Dharma, and no picture of non-Dharma, both.”
Commentary:
‘All these sentient beings’ right here refers to those that can get pleasure from infinite blessing by seeing all issues as they’re in the identical means the Buddha noticed all issues. Seeing all issues as they’re means seeing and listening to all pictures and phrases as not actual however illusionary, or imaginary, which can also be known as seeing and listening to all the things as empty.
Once we see all the things, together with ourselves, as empty, there’s nothing however vacancy. The vacancy is known as the true-Self, non-duality, the Buddha, and so to see issues as empty is known as seeing the Buddha, or realising that we’re the Buddha, which is not any aside from attaining infinite blessing, infinite advantage. For this reason historic masters would say that we must always recognise the true-Self, the Buddha hidden in all issues.
In brief, none however those that are above being deluded by pictures, that’s, those that can see all the things as empty can get pleasure from infinite blessing. For this reason the Buddha mentioned that each one these sentient beings haven’t any extra pictures as narrated above.
Scholar: “How is it when we now have no picture in any respect?”
Grasp: “The Buddha and his phrases are additionally pictures.”
©Boo Ahm
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