འཕགས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་འཁར་ལ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1

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Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas!

Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was residing on Vulture Peak in Rājagṛha accompanied by a saṅgha of 1,250 bhikṣus and a saṅgha of innumerable, countless bodhisattvas. Surrounded also by various retinues of gods, nāgas, yakṣas, and other beings, he was teaching them the Dharma.

At that time, the Blessed One was absorbed in the meditative concentration called wheel of meditative concentration. Through the power of that meditative concentration, all the buddha lands shook and were illuminated by a great light.

Then, the bodhisattva Youthful Mañjuśrī, who was present in that retinue, rose from his seat and said to the Blessed One, “Blessed One, your absorption in the wheel of meditative concentration is amazing. Sugata, it is truly amazing.”

The Blessed One asked, “Mañjuśrī, do you know the very limit of reality?”¹³

“I know it, Blessed One,” replied the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī.

“Mañjuśrī, where is the very limit of reality?” asked the Blessed One.

Mañjuśrī replied, “Blessed One, the very limit of reality is where it is not.”

“Mañjuśrī, where is it not?” asked the Blessed One,

Mañjuśrī replied, “Blessed One, it is without any location.”¹⁴

The Blessed One asked, “Mañjuśrī, what is meditation?”

Mañjuśrī replied, “Blessed One, meditation means nonmeditation.”

Then Mañjuśrī asked, “How does the Tathāgata teach the Dharma?”

“Mañjuśrī,” replied the Blessed One, “I teach the Dharma to the effect that forms are undestroyed and unborn. I teach the Dharma to the effect that feelings, perceptions, formations, and consciousnesses are undestroyed and unborn. I turn the wheel of Dharma to the effect that attachment, hatred, and ignorance are undestroyed and unborn.