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FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING.
IV, 16.
(Exclaiming), Buddha is our great teacher! we are the honoured one's disciples.' Thus having magnified his work and finished all he purposed doing, 1356
Drawing the world as universal witness, the assembly was convinced that he, the world-honoured, was truly the Omniscient!' 1357
Buddha, perceiving that the whole assembly was ready as a vessel to receive the law, spoke thus to Bimbisára Râga: 'Listen now and understand; 1358
The mind, the thoughts, and all the senses are subject to the law of life and death. This fault of birth and death, once understood, then there is clear and plain perception ; 1359
'Obtaining this clear perception, then there is born knowledge of self, knowing oneself and with this knowledge laws of birth and death, then there is no grasping and no sense-perception. 1360
'Knowing oneself, and understanding how the senses act, then there is no room for “I,” or ground for framing it; then all the accumulated mass of sorrow, sorrows born from life and death, 1361
Being recognised as attributes of body, and as this body is not "I,” nor offers ground for “I," then comes the great superlative (discovery), the source of peace unending; 1362
*This thought (view) of "self" gives rise to all these sorrows, binding as with cords the world, but having found there is no “I” that can be bound, then all these bonds are severed. 1363
There are no bonds indeed—they disappear
1 This fault; that is, this flaw.
As with fetters.
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