Half 14-6
Buddha stated to Subhuti, “It’s so. It’s so. If anybody, on listening to this sutra, shouldn’t be shocked, not frightened, and never intimidated, you need to know that this particular person is extraordinarily uncommon.”
Commentary:
‘It’s so. It’s so’ implies that an individual who, by way of listening to this sutra, believing in it, understanding it, accepting it and upholding it, is free from all pictures and is rarely deluded by any pictures, is known as the Buddha.
So, if we’ve change into free from all pictures by way of studying this sutra and are by no means deluded by any pictures, we shouldn’t be deluded any longer by the phrases in ‘If anybody, on listening to this sutra, shouldn’t be shocked, not frightened, and never intimidated, you need to know that this particular person is extraordinarily uncommon’. As a substitute, we should always be capable to realise the perform of the true-Self in every phrase and really feel oneness with it.
‘This particular person is extraordinarily uncommon’ means that he’s just like the Buddha. When it’s stated that the true-Self, or the Buddha is extraordinarily uncommon, it’s known as uncommon not as a result of it’s really uncommon however as a result of it’s not often perceived. In reality, it’s the commonest and probably the most plentiful as soon as we discern it since there may be nothing that’s not it.
Pupil: “What’s uncommon?”
Grasp: “It’s uncommon when you’ll be able to’t see it, however nothing is extra widespread and plentiful than it when you’ll be able to see it.”
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