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金剛般若經旨贊 2.209

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Sūtra: [“...and] if another person [were to know that all dharmas are devoid of self and attains patience, this bodhisattva’s merit would surpass] the merit obtained [by the former bodhisattva.”] / Praise: This shows the superior. If even the merit of the aforementioned ordinary person giving treasures, though in saṃsāra, is not oppressed by suffering, how much less when there is another extraordinary person of the Buddha who knows that all dharmas are devoid of those two selves, attains the accomplishment of the three patiences, and achieves mastery over conditioned dharmas, not being generated by the power of karma and afflictions—how could all his merit, which surpasses the former, ever be oppressed by suffering? The two selflessnesses are: first, the selflessness of persons; second, the selflessness of dharmas. The three patiences mean: because of knowing the principle of the two kinds of selflessness, one can, in regard to the three natures, give rise in turn to the patience of the non-arising of the nature of suffering, the patience of the non-arising of nature-as-such, and the patience of the non-arising of affliction and suffering.

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