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1. The first revolution of truth.
'Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair are suffering; association with the unbeloved is suffering, separation from the loved is suffering, not getting what is wanted is suffering. In short, the five aggregates subject to grasping are suffering'.
2. Where mindfulness meets its fourfold path.
'And how does a monk remain focused on the mind in and of itself? There is the case where a monk, when the mind has passion, discerns that the mind has passion. When the mind is without passion, he discerns that the mind is without passion. When the mind has aversion, he discerns that the mind has aversion. When the mind is without aversion, he discerns that the mind is without aversion. When the mind has delusion, he discerns that the mind has delusion. When the mind is without delusion, he discerns that the mind is without delusion'.
3. The rewards of leaving the palace behind.
'Not long after King Ajatasattu had left, the Blessed One addressed the monks: 'The king is wounded, monks. The king is incapacitated. Had he not killed his father -- that righteous man, that righteous king -- the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye would have arisen to him as he sat in this very seat'.
4. Detached, she plucked out desire.
'Seeing your eyes, my sensual delight
grows all the more.
Even if you should go far away,
I will think only of your pure,
long-lashed gaze,
for there is nothing dearer to me
than your eyes, O nymph with languid regard.'
...
Plucking out her lovely eye,
with mind unattached
She felt no regret.
'Here, take this eye. It's yours.'
Straightaway she gave it to him.
Straightaway his passion faded right there,
And he begged her forgiveness.
5. She wept for one, he showed her thousands.
'Jiva, my daughter,'
You cry in the woods.
Come to your senses, Ubbiri!
84,000
all named Jiva
have been burned in that charnel ground.
For which of them do you grieve?"
"Pulling out
-- completely out --
The arrow is so hard to see,
embedded in my heart,
He [the Buddha] expelled from me
-- overcome with grief --
the grief
over my daughter'.
6. The heart of wisdom beats in paradox.
'Form is empty; emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form; form is not other than emptiness'.
7. A sutra where a wise man teaches even the monks about emptiness.
Manjusri replied, 'Good sirs, you have all spoken well. Nevertheless, all your explanations are themselves dualistic. To know no one teaching, to express nothing, to say nothing, to explain nothing, to announce, to indicate nothing, and to designate nothing-that is the entrance into nonduality'.
8. A sutra that explains the deeper meaning of the Buddha's words, key to Yogācāra thought.
'Then the Bhagavan turned the third wheel of doctrine, possessing good differentiations, and exceedingly wondrous, for those genuinely engaged in all vehicles, beginning with the lack of own-being of phenomena, and beginning with their absence of production, absence of cessation, quiescence from the start, and being naturally in a state of nirvana. Moreover, that wheel of doctrine turned by the Bhagavan is unsurpassable, does not provide an opportunity [for refutation], is of definitive meaning, and does not serve as a basis for dispute'.
9. The descent into the depths of consciousness.
'Mahamati, since the ignorant and simple-minded, not knowing that the world is only something seen of the mind itself, cling to themultitudinothe multitudebjects, cling to the notions of beings and non-being, oneness and otherness, bothness and non-bothness, existence and non-existence, eternity and non-eternity, and think that they have a self-nature of their own, all of which rises from the discriminations of the mind and is perpetuated by habit-energy, and from which they are given over to false imagination'.
10. Sutra is named after a gem that slices delusion.
Suppose there is a person who says the Tathagata has attained the supremely unexcelled bodhi. Subhuti, really there is no Dharma in the Buddha's attainment of the supremely unexcelled bodhi. Subhuti, in the Tathagata's attainment of the supremely unexcelled bodhi there is no truth or falsehood. This is why the Tathagata says that all of the Dharmas are the Buddha's Dharma. Subhuti, that which is called 'all of the Dharmas,' then, is not all of the Dharmas. This is why it is called 'all of the Dharmas.'
Source: Author
Kalibre
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