Regarding the inversion of perceiving purity in what is impure, you may hear someone say this:
“Within this body of mine there is not one dharma that is not pure. It is by means of this lack of impurity that I will surely gain entrance into that place of purity [known as nirvana]. This is the practice of “contemplation on impurity” that has been taught by the Tathāgata.”
This kind of speech is incoherent and false; I call it inverted.
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[kasyapa continued:] “World Honored One, is there a self or not in any of the 25 forms of existence?”
The Buddha said:
Good man, “self” is precisely what tathagatagarbha means. All living beings have buddha nature, and this is what is meant by this notion of self. However, the significance of “self” understood in this way has been continuously covered over by an uncountable number of defilements since the beginning [of any individual’s existence], and that is why living beings have been unable to perceive it
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“The nature of self is originally complete.”
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Submitted April 19, 2021 at 12:40AM by autonomatical https://ift.tt/3mWND7U
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