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佛說心明經 1.7

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1.7

Thereupon, the World-Honoured One immediately displayed his broad and long tongue, which covered his face and reached up to the Brahmā heaven. He told the brahma-cultist: “For countless hundreds of thousands of millions of kalpas, I have constantly practiced absolute sincerity and the six perfections, bestowing all that brings peace, giving without stinginess whatever I possessed. Only through this did I obtain such a tongue—could it possibly be acquired through false speech? I wish to ask you a question; answer me with absolute sincerity. Have you ever traveled back and forth between Śrāvastī and Rājagṛha, where along the road there is a tree called nyagrodha that provides shade for a crowd of people and five hundred carriages?”

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