Post by Neo on Oct 12, 2020 22:15:25 GMT -5
The Licchavi Vimalakirti declared, "So be it, good sirs! It is as you say. The great compassion of the bodhisattvas who reincarnate here is extremely firm. In a single lifetime in this universe, they accomplish much benefit for living beings. So much benefit for living beings could not be accomplished in the universe Sarvagandhasugandha even in one hundred thousand aeons.
Why? Good sirs, in this Saha universe, there are ten virtuous practices which do not exist in any other buddha-field. What are these ten?
Here they are: to win the poor by generosity; to win the immoral by morality; to win the hateful by means of tolerance; to win the lazy by means of effort; to win the mentally troubled by means of concentration; to win the falsely wise by means of true wisdom; to show those suffering from the eight adversities how to rise above them; to teach the Mahayana to those of narrow-minded behavior; to win those who have not produced the roots of virtue by means of the roots of virtue; and to develop living beings without interruption through the four means of unification.
Those who engage in these ten virtuous practices do not exist in any other buddha-field." ~ The Vimalakirti sutra
...ooOoo...
Source:
www.imeditate.com/books_music/vimalakirti/vimalakirti10.html
Note: I would imagine this Saha universe is made up of the billion world systems (much like this earth) in the Milky Way galaxy; therefore the buddha-field encompases the entire galaxy
Why? Good sirs, in this Saha universe, there are ten virtuous practices which do not exist in any other buddha-field. What are these ten?
Here they are: to win the poor by generosity; to win the immoral by morality; to win the hateful by means of tolerance; to win the lazy by means of effort; to win the mentally troubled by means of concentration; to win the falsely wise by means of true wisdom; to show those suffering from the eight adversities how to rise above them; to teach the Mahayana to those of narrow-minded behavior; to win those who have not produced the roots of virtue by means of the roots of virtue; and to develop living beings without interruption through the four means of unification.
Those who engage in these ten virtuous practices do not exist in any other buddha-field." ~ The Vimalakirti sutra
...ooOoo...
Source:
www.imeditate.com/books_music/vimalakirti/vimalakirti10.html
Note: I would imagine this Saha universe is made up of the billion world systems (much like this earth) in the Milky Way galaxy; therefore the buddha-field encompases the entire galaxy