諸經要集 12.28
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12.28
Having known this, one should cultivate loving-kindness and compassion, eliminating [ill will] through patience (kṣānti) and making the mind pure. Contemplating sound as empty and nominal, one should not give rise to ill will. Therefore the Dazhidu lun says: 'The bodhisattva knows that all dharmas are unarisen and unceasing, and that their nature is entirely empty. If someone expresses ill will, reviles, strikes, or kills, it is like a dream or an illusion. Contemplating the sound, it is originally nonexistent; it is merely the sound of wind arisen from conditions—what need is there to be angry?' Therefore the treatise says: 'When one wishes to speak, the wind in the mouth called udāna returns inward down to the navel. Striking the navel, a reverberation emerges. As the reverberation emerges, it strikes seven places and arises; this is called speech.' As the verse says:
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