宗鏡錄 64.8

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64.8

Question: Vimalakīrti then entered samādhi and caused this monk to recognize his own past lives—that he had once planted numerous roots of virtue before five hundred Buddhas and dedicated them to anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi—whereupon he was immediately enlightened and recovered his fundamental mind. Now, as the past mind has already passed away, the future mind has not yet arrived, and the present mind does not abide, how can one contemplate another's past mind of roots of virtue?

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宗鏡錄 — Classical Chinese