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Post by Neo on Jan 13, 2021 21:45:30 GMT -5
In the tathāgata domain, the Blessed One had fully realized the sameness of all phenomena. He had turned the wheel of the Dharma and now commanded a vast host of well-trained disciples. He had achieved mastery over all phenomena. He knew well how to fulfill the intentions of all beings, he had discovered how to bring their faculties to the highest perfection, and he had become skillful in terminating their karmic traces. In his spontaneous and uninterrupted buddha activity, he resided in the company of a large saṅgha of sixty thousand monks. Source:read.84000.co/translation/toh147.html |
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Post by Neo on Jan 13, 2021 21:51:49 GMT -5
The Blessed One proceeded to teach the Dharma discourse The Gateway to Unobstructed Deliverance through the Bodhisattva Way of Life. Sixteen years had passed since the Blessed One had become fully awakened, and he knew that the sacred conduct had unfolded. He beheld the great assembly of bodhisattvas. Once he had understood these assembled bodhisattvas to be holders of the treasury of tathāgata Dharma, he thought, “Because I care deeply for the bodhisattvas, I shall teach the Dharma discourse The Gateway to Unobstructed Deliverance through the Bodhisattva Way of Life, drawing on the magic and miraculous displays of tathāgatas, in order to lead the bodhisattva mahāsattvas to the domain of the Tathāgata.”
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Post by Neo on Jan 13, 2021 21:53:08 GMT -5
Then the Blessed One attained the tathāgata absorption called display of the emanation of the buddha domain exactly as it is. As soon as he had attained that absorption, by his buddha power a pavilion, a veritable buddha abode, appeared in the atmosphere between the desire realm and the form realm. This occurred due to the roots of virtue of the Tathāgata. It purified the thinking of bodhisattvas, illuminated the realms of the worlds of the ten directions, fulfilled the aspirations of countless sentient beings, eclipsed the palaces of the gods, and inspired bodhisattvas everywhere.
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Post by Neo on Jan 13, 2021 22:01:31 GMT -5
Then the Blessed One attained the tathāgata absorption called display of the emanation of the buddha domain exactly as it is. As soon as he had attained that absorption, by his buddha power a pavilion, a veritable buddha abode, appeared in the atmosphere between the desire realm and the form realm. This occurred due to the roots of virtue of the Tathāgata. It purified the thinking of bodhisattvas, illuminated the realms of the worlds of the ten directions, fulfilled the aspirations of countless sentient beings, eclipsed the palaces of the gods, and inspired bodhisattvas everywhere.
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Post by Neo on Jan 13, 2021 22:03:04 GMT -5
Then, at that time, by the power of the Buddha, the bodhisattva Mārapramardaka attained the conquering the entire retinue of Māra absorption. At the very moment that the bodhisattva Mārapramardaka attained that absorption, all the billion demons throughout the trichiliocosm, surrounded by their armies and retinues of servants, disappeared very swiftly and immediately from their individual residences.
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Post by Neo on Jan 13, 2021 22:08:08 GMT -5
“Blessed One, such a display of blessings through a single instance of generating the thought of awakening, in this pavilion by these noble beings, is beyond the capacity of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas to teach, even for a hundred thousand eons.
“In view of that, I think that such beings who aspire for the vehicle of śrāvakas or vehicle of pratyekabuddhas with misguided understanding, even after witnessing an amazing, miraculous, magical display such as this, are quite baffling.
Why is that? Blessed One, the very first generation of the thought of awakening of a bodhisattva overpowers all śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas.
When someone discards the Great Vehicle and thinks, ‘I will follow the vehicle of the śrāvakas or pratyekabuddhas,’ it is for me comparable to a person with misguided insight who discards a precious gem of beryl and thinks, ‘I prefer a semiprecious stone.’
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