坐禪三昧經 2.36
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2.36
Furthermore, he contemplates that all worlds are entirely suffering and empty, without any pleasure. This suffering is caused by the accumulation of craving and other kleśas; the knowledge of this origin whose object is cessation is named the supreme dharma, than which nothing is higher. The eightfold correct path can enable the practitioner to reach nirvāṇa, than which nothing is higher. With such faithful mind, without regret and without doubt, to accept this is named acceptance. Within this there is further acceptance: various fetters and various kleśas, doubts and regrets, entering into the mind, are unable to shatter it—just as various winds and waters cannot dislodge a stone mountain. Therefore it is named acceptance, and on this account he is named a genuinely good ordinary person. As the Buddha said in the Dharmapada:
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