A. The truth is, it’s unattainable to talk ailing of the Buddha, firstly as a result of the Buddha is the formless, boundless, anonymous and changeless state free from illusions, or an individual who has realised that he’s the Buddha, and secondly as a result of the Buddha regards every thing as empty. The Buddha can’t be an object to seek out fault with as a result of it’s formless and anonymous. It doesn’t matter what abuses somebody fires on the Buddha, he can’t defame the Buddha since abuses will not be abuses however the features of the true-Self to him, as a result of he’s by no means deluded by phrases.
He who speaks ailing of the Buddha, deluded by an phantasm of the Buddha, is making futile effort to defame the formless Buddha. Those that are swayed when listening to the Buddha spoken ailing of are additionally unaware that the Buddha is formless and unattainable to talk ailing of. Nonetheless, seen from the attitude of the enlightened, the accuser can be a part of the Buddha.
That is why we must always not have our minds swayed within the Buddha’s educating even when we hear the Buddha spoken ailing of, or effectively of.
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