Post by Neo on Dec 31, 2020 21:26:06 GMT -5
Said the Blessed One: It is not, Mahamati, that all things are Maya because they are both alike in being imagined and clung to as having multitudinousness of individual signs, but that all things are like Maya because they are unreal and like a lightning-flash which is seen as quickly disappearing. Mahamati, a lightning appears and disappears in quick succession as is manifest to the ignorant; in the same way, Mahamati, all things assume individuality and generality according to the discrimination [of the Mind] itself. When the state of imagelessness is recognised, objects which are imagined and clung to as in possession of individual signs cease to assert themselves. ~ The Lankavatara sutra