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དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9.2

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 9.2

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9.2

will see the outside and inside of the world realm of a thousand million worlds, with its mountains⁴⁷⁷ and forests, seeing all as far down as the Avīci hell and as far upward as the summit of existence. With ordinary eyes of flesh they will see all the birthplaces of beings, and know the ripening of their karma.”

Thereupon the Bhagavān spoke these verses:

“Hear from me what are the qualities in store
For those who fearlessly teach this sūtra
In the middle of an assembly,
Teaching it without idleness. {1}

“Their eyes will be beautified
By eight hundred qualities.
Therefore those eyes will be stainless,
Unpolluted, and pure. {2}

“With the physical eyes
That have come from their parents
They will see the entire world realm,
From the outside and from the inside. {3}

“They will see all of the Merus,
Sumerus, and Cakravālas;
So, too, will they also see
The other well-known mountains,⁴⁷⁸ and the oceans. {4}

“Those wise ones will see everything,
From as far down as the Avīci hell
To as high up as the summit of existence;
That is what their physical eyes will be like. {5}

“They will still not have divine eyes
And so they will not have that knowledge.
But that is the way it will be
For the field of vision of their physical eyes. {6}

“Moreover, Satata­samitābhiyukta, the noble man or noble woman who teaches and explains to others this Dharma teaching will have those twelve hundred qualities of the ears. They will hear all the outer and inner sounds that arise in the world realm of a thousand million worlds, from as far down as the Avīci hell to as high up as the summit of existence, such as the sounds of elephants, the sounds of horses, the sounds of camels, the sounds of oxen, the sounds of goats, the sounds of carts, the sounds of weeping, the sounds of misery, the sounds of fear,

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