[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika) › [དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo) › [The White Lotus of the Good Dharma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000) › 4.7 # དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.7 The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 4.7 - **Language:** English ### [4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.4.7) “A potter makes clay pots Equally from the same clay But they become pots For molasses, milk, ghee, or water. {47} “Some are for impurities And others for curds, Though the potter makes the pots By using the same clay. {48} “A pot is characterized in accordance With the substance that is contained within it. In the same way there is no difference between beings But there are those who become tathāgatas because of their aspirations. {49} “They describe separate yānas But the Buddhayāna is the definitive one.²⁶⁷ If there is no knowledge of the circle of saṃsāra There can be no knowledge of nirvāṇa. {50} “The one who knows emptiness And that phenomena are without self Truly knows the enlightenment Of the bhagavāns, of the buddhas. {51} “Someone who is classified as having Medium wisdom is said to be a pratyekajina. Someone who is lacking²⁶⁸ the knowledge of emptiness Is proclaimed to be a śrāvaka. {52} “The one who comprehends all phenomena Is said to be a perfectly enlightened buddha.²⁶⁹ {53} “Someone who is born blind says, Not having ever seen The sun, moon, planets, or stars, ‘There are no forms whatsoever.’ {54} “A great physician has great compassion For the one who is born blind, And goes to the Himalayas, Ascending, descending, and traversing them. {55} “From the mountains he finds herbs Of four kinds such as the one called Endowed with all colors and tastes,²⁷⁰ And he blends them together. {56} “Some he grinds with his teeth, And others he crushes, or moreover Inserts them into a limb with a needle’s point, Thereby using them on the born-blind man. {57} “The blind man gains his sight and sees the sun, The moon, the planets, and the stars, And then he thinks that in the past He had spoken out of ignorance. {58} “In that way, beings have great²⁷¹ ignorance Like the born-blind man, and continue in saṃsāra. Because they do not know the cycle of dependent origination Their path is the river of suffering.²⁷² {59} “The supreme all-knowing one,²⁷³ - [Previous: 4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.4.6) - [Next: 4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.4.8) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.4) ## Linked texts (1) - [དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo.4.7) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.4.7) · Pramāṇa