Half 10-2
“Subhuti, what do you suppose? Do Bodhisattvas adorn the Buddha-land?” “No, World Honoured One, as a result of adorning the Buddha-land is just not adornment, however it’s simply referred to as adornment.”
Commentary:
The Buddha-land, one other title of the Pure land which implies the true-Self, is so excellent that it leaves nothing to be desired. That’s, including one thing else to it, eradicating one thing from it, or altering it to make it look higher is just not adorning however dirtying it. The reality is that it’s unattainable to vary the Buddha-land. Irrespective of how onerous we could wrestle to vary it, we can’t change it within the least. To make certain that we will change, or have modified it for good, or for unhealthy, is to be deluded by the illusions created by us.
True adornment means to understand that this world by which we live now’s no aside from the Buddha-land. Actually, we sentient beings are deluded into pondering that we’re drowning within the ocean of struggling as a result of we can’t see issues as they’re while we are literally within the Buddha-land. That’s, we can’t really feel how lovely and excellent this world is since we’re deluded by phrases and kinds and might’t see issues as they’re. Failing to see issues as they’re like that is known as dirtying the Buddha-land. To understand that this world is the Buddha-land by seeing issues as they’re is to adorn the Buddha-land. Because of this adorning the Buddha-land is just not adornment, however it’s simply referred to as adornment.
Pupil: “How can I adorn Buddha-land?”
Grasp: “Don’t transfer even your fingertips.”
Pupil: “Why, sir?”
Grasp: “Adoring it’s dirtying it.”
Pupil: “How holy and excellent is it?”
Grasp: “‘Holy’ and ‘excellent’ are relatively dust that defiles it.”
©Boo Ahm
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