Therefore you must respectfully accept these and, considering how living beings can best gain benefits from them, expound them far and wide. Chinese editions The area has become suddenly broadened and adorned, and the members of the assembly have all taken on a golden color! The same is repeated with various great celestial bodhisattvas, until Mañjuśrī, the bodhisattva of wisdom, finally agrees. Untroubled is bodhi, for it is forever still of itself. A heavenly musician, one of the eight kinds of nonhuman beings who protect Buddhism. Though aware that all things in the end are pure in nature, he responds to circum-stances by showing himself in bodily form-such is the practice of the bodhisattva. "'This, my good man, is what I mean by a gathering for Dharma bestowal. The thousand sons, obeying their father's command, proceeded to make offerings to the Thus Come One Medicine King for another five full kalpas, providing him with everything needed for his wellbeing. "'Rahula, leaving the household life is not that, not this, and not in between. "Observing the precepts himself but not taxing others with their shortcomings is the pure land of the bodhisattva. They are preached by the Buddhas of the ten directions and the three existences of past, present, and future. "Though he practices concentration and insight as methods to aid one to the way, in the end he does not sink into tranquil extinction-such is the practice of the bodhisattva. He is accordingly known as foremost in hearing the Buddha's teachings. Originally the god of thunder in Indian mythology, he was later incorporated into Buddhism as a disciple of the Buddha and protector of the Dharma and its followers. five desires. They had learned to accept the fact that there is nothing to be grasped at, no view of phenomena to be entertained. "What is meant by saying that expedient means without wisdom is bondage? The Dharma is forever still and serene, because it has wiped out all characteristics. Unmoved by sundry theories, but practicing the thirty-seven elements of the Way-this is quiet sitting. There were also twelve thousand Indras who had come from the other four continent worlds to take a seat in the gathering. The text closes with formulaic statements that the teaching it delivers should be preserved and transmitted. "Ah, Shariputra, a seeker of the Law does not seek it through attachment to the Buddha, does not seek it through attachment to the Law, does not seek it through attachment to the order. He accompanied Shakyamuni for many years as his personal attendant and heard more of his teachings than any other disciple. Three gates to emancipation. It is located on a plateau at the top of Mt. Even if all the living beings in the thousand-millionfold world were like you, Ananda, who are foremost in hearing the teachings and concentrating on and retaining all you have heard, and they were to live for a whole kalpa, they could not hear it all. Then Vimalakirti said to Shariputra and the other great voice-hearers, "Sirs, come eat this rice from the Thus Come One, delicious as sweet dew It is redolent with the odor of great pity. The Dharma knows no high or low. As in the case of Brahma, the Indras are depicted as vast in number. For the benefit of everybody, I reproduce this memorable passage from the Vimalakirti Sutra that you may want to incorporate as your spiritual aspiration: Expand Your Appreciation of Classic Buddhist Writings, Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2017. The Brahmans, lay believers, and others of Vaishali, smelling this fragrant aroma, were delighted in body and mind, sighing with admiration at something they had never known before. The bodhisattvas give a variety of answers on the question what non-duality is. Thirty-seven practices leading to enlightenment, namely four states of mindfulness, four types of correct effort, four bases of supernatural power five roots of goodness, five powers, seven factors of enlightenment, and the eightfold holy path. Mahakashyapa (Mahákášyapa). The provisionally named is bodhi, because names and words are void. 2 That is, the seeds leading to enlightenment or Buddhahood. Never speak such words! And if it is empty, then there are no meritorious deeds, no blameful deeds, and no deeds that call forth no retribution.