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## First Understanding: The Subtle Plant-bodied
[57] Those who are insufficient beings, are not said to have black, etc., specific colors, smells, tastes, and touches, due to the manifestation of their color, smell, taste, touch, etc., but generally, due to having a body, they have color, etc., in an unmanifest form. / Those beings who are sufficient, are of various kinds due to color, smell, taste, and touch. Due to the difference in color, etc., and their subtlety, there are thousands of their kinds. In total, they have seven hundred thousand species. / In the lifespan of one sufficient being, countless insufficient beings are born. / Where there is one sufficient being, there are countless insufficient beings by rule.
Regarding the subtle plant-bodied beings, one should understand the 23 gates in the same way as the subtle earth-bodied beings. The difference is that the institution of the subtle plant-bodied beings should be understood as being like a bubble. / In the gate of position, one should understand the lowest as a moment, and the highest as seven thousand years. / The rest of the statements should be understood in the same way as the subtle earth-bodied beings. O Venerable Ascetic! Those subtle plant-bodied beings are said to be each-bodied and countless in number, as vast as the space of the universe. This is the description of the subtle plant-bodied beings.
## The Plant-bodied
[18] What is the nature of the plant-bodied beings? The plant-bodied beings are said to be of two kinds, namely: the subtle plant-bodied and the gross plant-bodied.
[16] What are the subtle plant-bodied beings? The subtle plant-bodied beings are of two kinds, namely: the sufficient and the insufficient. The description of these should be understood in the same way as the subtle earth-bodied beings. The special feature is that the institution of the subtle plant-bodied beings is impermanent. / These beings are those who go in two motions and those who obtain in two motions. They are non-each-bodied (infinite-bodied) and infinite in number. / O Venerable Ascetic! This is the description of the subtle plant-bodied beings.
[19] What are the gross plant-bodied beings? The gross plant-bodied beings are of two kinds, namely: the gross plant-bodied beings with a leaf-like body and the gross plant-bodied beings with an ordinary body.