The White Lotus ~ 07
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 6 Nov 1979 am |
| location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 53min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | WLOTUS07 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Question: What do you call the mind of greediness?
- Answer: It is the mind of ignorance.
- Question: What do you call the mind of egolessness?
- Answer: It is the mind of shravaka, Buddha's actual disciple.
- Question: What do you call the mind of no-entity?
- Answer: It is the mind of the sages who have no connection with the teaching of Buddha, but discover the truth of no-entity by themselves.
- Question: What do you call the mind which has no particular understanding, and also no painful delusions?
- Answer: It is the mind of bodhisattvas.
- Question: What do you call the mind which has nothing to know and also nothing to realize?
- Answer: No answer from Bodhidharma.
- Bodhidharma said, "Dharmakaya has no form, therefore one sees it without seeing. Dharma has no voice, therefore one hears it without hearing. Prajna has nothing to be known, therefore one knows it without knowing. If he thinks that he is seeing, he sees it incompletely. If he thinks that he knows it, he does not know it thoroughly. When he knows it without knowing, he knows it completely. If one does not know this, he is not a true knower. If one thinks that he is gaining, he is not gaining entirely. When he gains nongaining, he owns everything. If one thinks that he is right, his righteousness is not perfect. When he transcends right and wrong, his virtues are accomplished. Such wisdom is the gate-opener to a hundred thousand gates of the higher wisdom."
- Said Bodhidharma, "All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas. One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality there is nothing to be born, consequently there is nothing to perish.
- By clinging one recognizes a thing or an idea. Reality has neither inside, outside, nor middle part. An ignorant person creates delusions and suffers from discrimination. Right and wrong do not exist in reality. An ignorant person creates them, recognizes them, near or far, inward or outward. He then suffers from discrimination. This is the general way of the phenomenal world."
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