Half 11-2
“Subhuti, I’m telling you the reality. If a superb man or a superb girl stuffed as many billion-world universes as grains of sand in that many Ganges Rivers with seven sorts of treasures, and used all that to provide in charity, would there be many blessings gained?” Subhuti mentioned, “Very a lot, World Honoured One.” The Buddha mentioned to Subhuti, “If a superb man or a superb girl accepts and holds even a four-line verse of this sutra and tells it to others, the blessing of this exceeds the aforementioned blessings.”
Commentary:
To make a protracted story quick, this half says that accepting and holding even a four-line verse of this sutra and telling it to others is way more rewarding and useful than filling as many billion-world universes as grains of sand in that many Ganges Rivers with seven sorts of treasures and utilizing all that to provide in charity.
To get the identical fruit talked about above, we should always know how you can settle for and maintain even a four-line verse of this sutra and inform it to others.
The core of the Buddha’s teachings, as talked about beforehand a number of instances, shouldn’t be dwelling on something, that’s, seeing and listening to issues as they’re with out being deluded by photos and phrases. If we apply these phrases to seeing this sutra and due to this fact see it with out being deluded by photos and phrases, this sutra shouldn’t be a sutra and all of the phrases on this sutra are usually not phrases, however are a part of the true-Self, Vacancy. For this reason the Avatamsaka Sutra additionally says, “Solely when one has seeing, what’s seen and the observer eliminated, does one not harm the true-Self. Solely such an individual can see the Buddha.”
Seen from the identical perspective, we the readers of this sutra are usually not human beings, and all different issues are usually not issues, however all are simply a part of the true-Self as nicely. Then, there isn’t any distinction in anyway amongst this sutra, readers of this sutra and the opposite issues, they usually develop into one because the true-Self. Then, every little thing, together with ourselves, is the true-Self, and each sound is a Dharma discuss. On this state, we’re recognized with this sutra as a result of we and this sutra are usually not separate from one another however one.
So, solely after we are this sutra, and each sound we make is a four-line verse can it’s mentioned that we all know how you can settle for and maintain even a four-line verse of this sutra and inform it to others.
Briefly, the blessing of accepting and holding even a four-line verse of this sutra and telling it to others exceeds the aforementioned blessing merely while you realise, by means of studying this sutra with out dwelling on phrases, that you’re the true-Self, the Buddha and that every one sounds you make are Dharma talks. For this reason historic masters would say that attempting to know the Buddha’s educating by dwelling on phrases is like seeing reflections in a mirror as actual and attempting to know them.
Scholar: “Do you imply that we don’t want printed scriptures on paper?”
Grasp: “Printed scriptures shouldn’t be printed scriptures.”
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