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西方合論 5.9

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5.9

Third, the approach of neither mind nor marks: The Vibhāṣā-śāstra explains that a newly resolved bodhisattva first practices buddhānusmṛti on the Buddha's physical marks—the essence of the marks, the karma of the marks, the fruition of the marks, and the function of the marks—attaining inferior power; next, he contemplates the Buddha's mind of the forty unshared dharmas, attaining medium power; next, he contemplates the Buddha of the true mark, attaining superior power, not clinging to either the form body or the Dharma body. A verse says: “He does not crave or cling to the form body, / nor does he cling to the Dharma body; / he thoroughly knows that all phenomena / are eternally quiescent like empty space.”

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