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དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9.5

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 9.5

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9.5

Whether they are inside somewhere or outside,
As far down as Avīci and up to the summit of existence, {19}

“They will hear all those sounds made by beings
Without their hearing being obstructed.
Their faculty will be clear and they will know each place of origin,
And that will be the nature of their ordinary hearing faculty. {20}

“They will not yet have the divine hearing;
Their ordinary hearing faculty will be like this.
The ones who fearlessly possess this sūtra
Will acquire such qualities as these. {21}

“Moreover, Satata­samitābhiyukta, the bodhisattva mahāsattvas who possess this Dharma teaching, teach it, recite it, or write it will have the eight hundred qualities of the nose; the sensory faculty of their nose will be completely purified.

“That completely pure nasal faculty will sense the multitude of different smells, both inside and outside in the world realm of a thousand million worlds, such as rotten smells, pleasant smells, and unpleasant smells.

“They will smell the scents of different flowers, namely, the scents of royal jasmine, jasmine, magnolias, and bignonia flowers.

“They will smell the scent of water-borne flowers, namely, the scents of blue lotuses, red lotuses, night lotuses, and white lotuses.

“They will smell the scent of the flowers of various fruit- and flower-bearing trees, and the scent of fruits, namely, the scents of sandalwood, bay leaves, valerian, and agarwood.

“If there are a hundred thousand aromas in one place they will smell them all and know them all.

“They will also smell the many different scents of animals, namely, the scents of elephants, horses, oxen, goats, sheep, and cattle.

“They will smell the scents of the bodies of many different kinds of creatures reborn as animals.

“They will smell the scents of the bodies of men and of women. They will smell the scents of the bodies of boys and girls. They will smell the scents of grasses, bushes,

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