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御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.141

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2.141

Sūtra: “Subhūti, if in the three-thousand […] using them for giving.”
Exposition: Third below, provisionally establishing the dharma of great benefit. Previously, one has emulated the Buddha in realizing the two bodies of dharma and retribution through correct awakening. Next, one should emulate the Buddha in bestowing the attained dharma upon sentient beings, establishing great happiness and benefit. Previously, the words were fully set forth, merely causing one not to grasp determinately onto words as signifiers or cling to dharmas, without yet teaching the benefit of sentient beings. Now, this causes one, having attained superior awakening oneself, to broadly bestow the great benefit of the Dharma upon other living beings; hence there is this text. In that treatise, it is to sever the twenty-first doubt that the indeterminate is not a cause. The doubt says: “If by fulfilling all wholesome dharmas one attains anuttarabodhi, then the expounded Dharma cannot attain great bodhi. Why? Because the expounded Dharma is an indeterminate dharma.” Exposition: Hīnayāna masters and the like cling to names, phrases, and the like as being indeterminate by nature; hence there is this doubt: “How could cultivating and studying indeterminate teaching dharmas attain great bodhi?” The verse says:

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