འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 11.17
The King of Samādhis Sūtra 11.17
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11.17
And my body became as it was before. {24}
“ ‘Father, just like a fig-tree flower is only seen
A few times in many millions of eons,
This dharmabhāṇaka is just like that,
Seen rarely in this Jambudvīpa. {25}
“ ‘Just as humans never tire of gazing
Upon shining Jambu River gold,
Devas and humans never tire of gazing
In that way upon this dharmabhāṇaka. {26}
“ ‘Just as a thirsty man is freed from thirst
When he drinks clear water,
In the same way wise dharmabhāṇakas
Free beings of thirst with the nectar of Dharma. {27}
“ ‘This my flesh and blood that I bestowed
Upon the bhikṣu who was afflicted by illness
Eliminated the dharmabhāṇaka’s erysipelas,
And I thus respectfully rendered homage to the Buddha. {28}
“ ‘I gave of my own flesh
To the learned one with correct conduct,
Who is a holder of this supreme samādhi.
May I obtain from him this Dharma! {29}
“ ‘Just as the fragrant aroma of the incense
Of yellow sandalwood and red sandalwood¹¹⁸³
Spreads throughout the ten directions,
So, too, does the aroma of the dharmabhāṇaka. {30}
“ ‘Just as Meru is seen from every direction,
And seeing its beauty brings joy
And it illuminates, shining in all directions,
In that way the dharmabhāṇaka is like Meru. {31}
“ ‘Just as when a wise man rebuilds
A stūpa that has fallen into ruin,
His having faith in that stūpa
Is the cause for it to be rebuilt, {32}
“ ‘Likewise, this stūpa of the Dharma was ill
And I cured it by applying blood.
With veneration for the Dharma, with my own flesh
I have lit the lamp for Jambudvīpa. {33}
“ ‘If this bhikṣu had passed away,
The words of this samādhi would have been
Forever silenced for the beings in this world.
By healing him, this samādhi will be obtained. {34}
“ ‘This bhikṣu is a protector of the whole world,
And gives sight to the blind world.
With the king of medicines he even heals
Desire, anger, and ignorance. {35}