02/23/2014
When the Buddha about to conclude this sutra, he tested his student Subuti and asked: “when someone talk of the notions of self, others, living beings, and immortality, does s/he understand what i teach?” Subhuti answered: “no, because these notions too, are merely names and mental conceptualization, are not to be attached, and not to be understood as the ultimate truth from the Buddha.” The Buddha compassionately furthered: “Whoever made the intention of supreme enlightenment, should perceive as such, see as such, understand as such, and do not let teachings develop into fixed notions. And same applies to this conclusion as well.
Once we embark on the journey to truth and spiritual enlightenment, teachers teachings knowledge method pathway technique experience will come. They are all to be treasured, but not to be attached. If we perceive them, see them, believe them, and understand them as this Sutra suggests, we will be walking on solid path.
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知见不生分第三十一
KNOWLEDGE AND VIEWS ARE NOT PRODUCED, THIRTY-ONE
须菩提!若人言:佛说我见、人见、众生见、寿者见。
须菩提!于意云何?是人解我所说义不?
“Subhuti, what do you think? If someone says: ‘The Buddha speaks of the view of an ego, a personality, a being and a life,
“Subhuti, does that person understand what I mean?”
不也,世尊!是人不解如来所说义。何以故?
世尊说:我见、人见、众生见、寿者见,即非我见、人见、众生见、寿者见,是名我见、人见、众生见、寿者见。
“No, World Honoured one, that person does not understand. Why?”
“Because (when) the Tathagata speaks of the view of an ego, a Personality, a being and a life, it is not really, (but) is (expediently) called the view of an ego, a personality a being and a life.”
须菩提!发阿耨多罗三藐三菩提心者,于一切法,应如是知,如是见,如是信解,不生法相。
须菩提!所言法相者,如来说即非法相,是名法相。
“Subhuti, he who develops the Supreme Enlightenment Mind, should thus know, see, believe and comprehend (all things); he should not set up the perception of things (dharma-laksana) in his mind.”
“Subhuti, the so-called form of things (dharma-laksana), the Tathagata says is not, but is, (expediently) called the form of things.”
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