法苑珠林 71.59

71.59

Knowing this, one should cultivate loving-kindness and compassion, eradicating [anger] through patience to make the mind pure. Contemplating sound as empty and provisional, anger should not arise. Therefore, the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra says: 'A bodhisattva knows that all dharmas neither arise nor cease, and that their nature is completely empty. If someone is angry and curses them, or beats and strikes them, it is like a dream or an illusion. Contemplating sound as fundamentally non-existent, it is merely the sound of wind arising from conditions; what need is there to be angry?' Therefore the treatise says: 'When a person wishes to speak, the wind in the mouth named udāna returns inside reaching the navel; striking the navel, an echo comes forth. When the echo comes forth, it strikes seven places to arise; this is called speech.' As the verse says: