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དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9.14

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 9.14

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9.14

They will still not have acquired the divine body;
Such will be their natural body. {66}

“Moreover, Satata­samitābhiyukta, the bodhisattva mahāsattvas who possess this Dharma, read it, teach it, explain it, or write it out will attain twelve hundred qualities of mental activity, and their mental faculty will be purified. Those who have a purified mental faculty will understand many meanings from hearing just one verse. And, comprehending that, they will be able to teach it for a month, for four months, or for a year. They will never forget any Dharma that they have been taught. They will be able to apply to the Dharma all of the world’s languages, incantations, and mundane terminology. They will know all the movement and activity in the minds of all those beings born in the six classes of existence in the world realm of a thousand million worlds.

“Even though they will not yet have attained the wisdom of the āryas, they will still have acquired that kind of purified mental faculty. Whatever Dharma definition they have contemplated, they will teach, and they will teach all of that correctly. They will teach all that the Tathāgata has taught. They will teach all the Dharma teachings taught by the jinas of the past.”

Thereupon the Bhagavān spoke these verses:

“Their mental faculty will become pure,
Clear, bright, and unobscured.
They will know the many kinds of phenomena:
The good, the bad, and the neutral. {67}

“When the resolute ones hear one verse
They will know many meanings within it.
They will be able to teach that correctly and consistently,
Continually for four months or a year.

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