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འཕགས་པ་བླ་གྲས་མ་ཟད་པས་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.20

The Teaching of Akṣayamati 1.20

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1.20

The absence of the activity of discursive thought related to the distinguishing marks of form is the perfection of insight.

“Thus, those bodhisatvas fulfill the six perfections as soon as they see that blessed tathāgata, that worthy, fully awakened Samantabhadra, and they receive the prophecy connected with the patient acceptance of the fact that all phenomena are unborn. Buddha fields where such bodhisatvas dwell, such as the world sphere Unblinking, the buddha field of that blessed tathāgata Samantabhadra, are exceedingly rare.”

Then Venerable Śāradvatīputra addressed the bodhisatva Akṣayamati and the other bodhisatvas, saying, “Holy beings, it is truly a great attainment that you may see the blessed tathāgata Samantabhadra, those bodhisatvas, and that world sphere Unblinking.”

Akṣayamati said, “Venerable Śāradvatīputra, do you also wish to see the world sphere Unblinking, the blessed tathāgata Samantabhadra, those arrays of flowers, and those bodhisatvas?”

Śāradvatīputra said, “Son of good family, I will see it for the sake of increasing the roots of virtue of the entire assembly gathered here.”

Then, at that moment, the bodhisatva Akṣayamati entered the concentration called the display of all buddha fields. As soon as he had entered this concentration, the elder Śāradvatīputra and the entire assembly saw the world sphere Unblinking, the blessed tathāgata, the worthy, fully awakened Samantabhadra, those arrays of flowers, and those bodhisatvas. When they saw them, they all got up from their seats, and joining the palms of their hands

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