(Cleary translation)
Good people of the Path, do not grasp what I say.
Why?
Because verbal explanations have no basis: they are temporary sketches on the void, like images formed of colored clouds.
Good people, do not think ‘Buddha’ is the ultimate. I see [such dualistic views of an external buddha] as a stink-hole. [Concepts of] ‘bodhisattva’ and ‘arhat’ are fetters and chains, things to bind people with. That’s why [in the stories in the sutras] Manjusri slew Buddha with his sword and Angulimala took his knife and wounded Buddha.
Good people, there is no buddha that can be attained. Even the three vehicles, the five categories of beings, the round and the sudden manifestations of the teachings, [and all Buddhist formulations] are all just medicines to deal with the diseases of a certain period.
There is no real doctrine at all.
If there are [doctrinal teachings], they are open announcements that show some semblance of [real truth], public verbal demonstrations. Arranged for effect, they explain as they do for the time being.
Submitted February 11, 2020 at 11:29PM by GreenSage45 https://ift.tt/2UHjWvt
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