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注大乘入楞伽經 4.133

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4.133

This explains the characteristics of the dhyāna cultivated by non-Buddhists and the two vehicles. Non-Buddhists cling to a spiritual self, and during dhyāna contemplation see forms resembling the sun and moon, luminous and shining brightly, or see a red lotus beneath a deep precipice. The two vehicles take particular and common characteristics to be truly existent, reducing the body to ashes and annihilating consciousness like empty space, taking it to be ultimate nirvāṇa just as fire dies out when the fuel is consumed. The word "painting" (畫) is feared to be an error; the other two editions both have the word "exhaustion" (盡).

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