法苑珠林 48.12

English (machine translation) 48.12

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48.12

Why is this so? 'Do not commit any evil' refers to the full precepts and clean, pure conduct. 'Cultivate all good' refers to the purification of the mind. 'Purify one's own mind' refers to removing false inversion. 'This is the teaching of all Buddhas' refers to banishing thoughts of delusion and confusion. How so, Kāśyapa? If the precepts are pure, how could the mind not be pure? When pure, there is no inversion; through the absence of inversion, thoughts of delusion and confusion are extinguished. The fruits of the thirty-seven factors of awakening are then realized. Having realized the fruits of the Path, are these not all the teachings?

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese