After praising the Buddha of buddhas
for his generosity towards all those who assembled
before him, the Bodhisattva of Great Adornment
asked the World Teacher how anyone could
become perfect in the highest level of Buddhahood
and in the shortest amount of time possible.
O Noteworthy Dharma Sons,
by carefully applying the teachings
of the sutra of innumerable meanings,
the precious jewel of a bodhisattva's realization is yours.
Every teaching that I have given,
including this one you are about to hear,
is empty of all good and bad qualities.
Like the mind, my teachings are neither
full nor destitute of quantity,
neither profound nor simple
and neither non dualistic nor dualistic.
Living beings, having the tendency to indiscriminately
discriminate against themselves and others,
always propound and extrapolate upon how
this is different from that and how enlightenment
is or is not natural to living beings everywhere.
As if bound by an ever turning wheel of perpetual sufferings,
living beings in reality are only pretending to be ignorant
of the whole truth as I innately and intimately know of it.
Observing the profundity and depth of compassion
and its comprehensive web of binding and liberating influences,
maintain the emptiness of the law instead of the apparent fullness of the law.
Even though I have skillfully delineated and pronounced
many severe and illuminating laws,
know that each law appears and disappears
as the mind appears and disappears.
Not mistaking a law for Buddhahood,
renounce the desire to be a strict
adherent of the law,
for a law is conditioned by time and circumstance
and you are more clearly not,
o follower of the Middle Way.
Just as thoughts appear to be real
when they are in the process of arising,
so too do laws appear to be real
as I speak of them and glorify their use.
As the desires of living beings multiply,
so too do the manners of teaching the laws multiply.
When the laws are seen to multiply as if by thin air,
so shall you see the innumerable meanings
of my fundamental doctrine be multiplied.
All laws being based on the one law of boundless emptiness,
realize how everything is void of form or an eternal nature.
The victory of indestructibility is for those
who can see through the form of my teachings
and into the hidden nature of Buddhahood.
This is what is known as the Great Vehicle of Deliverance.
Out of fear of having living beings
misunderstand this Law of laws,
please continue to explain to us the deeper essence
of this doctrine of boundless emptiness.
Meditating under the Bodhi tree for so long
and feeling the complexity of all of my teachings and laws,
the Truth of truths has not yet been openly revealed
for fear of it being quickly degraded
and stampeded upon by the many
who come to me to relieve them of their sufferings.
The Law being comparable to water that purifies,
no matter whether the quantity of water is large or small,
the law nonetheless washes away the inherent delusions of living beings.
Think of my teachings as being graded along different
lines of attainment. Some only need a little bit of water
to realize the Buddha nature, whereas other need a whole ocean's worth
before anything takes effect.
As the meanings that are found in my teachings varies,
so too does the type of enlightenment that is obtained
vary alongside the desires of the practitioner's mind.
Though of one enlightened seed,
I appear to sprout forth in every direction
and in every heart of every living being.
Though of one mind,
I appear to be of many minds
and of many formed and formless states.
Though of one enlightened stream of awareness,
I appear to be of many different streams,
each heading into its own particular destination.
This is the world of the Buddhas.
Incomprehensible except to the Comprehending Buddha,
the one life of nirvana is all that is and ever will be.
Seeking for enlightenment,
enlightenment evaporates before your eyes.
Looking into emptiness,
who is looking and who is seeing?
Realizing that there is nothing to realize,
a Buddha lies content at night.
Spinning The Dharma Wheel Once More,
every meaning that I have come to embody
is without an existence of its own.
The mind and the heart is empty of suffering.
Therefore, to think and to feel is to be liberated
from the processes of thinking and feeling.
Contradicting contradictions,
duality is unity when unity is without a form.
for his generosity towards all those who assembled
before him, the Bodhisattva of Great Adornment
asked the World Teacher how anyone could
become perfect in the highest level of Buddhahood
and in the shortest amount of time possible.
O Noteworthy Dharma Sons,
by carefully applying the teachings
of the sutra of innumerable meanings,
the precious jewel of a bodhisattva's realization is yours.
Every teaching that I have given,
including this one you are about to hear,
is empty of all good and bad qualities.
Like the mind, my teachings are neither
full nor destitute of quantity,
neither profound nor simple
and neither non dualistic nor dualistic.
Living beings, having the tendency to indiscriminately
discriminate against themselves and others,
always propound and extrapolate upon how
this is different from that and how enlightenment
is or is not natural to living beings everywhere.
As if bound by an ever turning wheel of perpetual sufferings,
living beings in reality are only pretending to be ignorant
of the whole truth as I innately and intimately know of it.
Observing the profundity and depth of compassion
and its comprehensive web of binding and liberating influences,
maintain the emptiness of the law instead of the apparent fullness of the law.
Even though I have skillfully delineated and pronounced
many severe and illuminating laws,
know that each law appears and disappears
as the mind appears and disappears.
Not mistaking a law for Buddhahood,
renounce the desire to be a strict
adherent of the law,
for a law is conditioned by time and circumstance
and you are more clearly not,
o follower of the Middle Way.
Just as thoughts appear to be real
when they are in the process of arising,
so too do laws appear to be real
as I speak of them and glorify their use.
As the desires of living beings multiply,
so too do the manners of teaching the laws multiply.
When the laws are seen to multiply as if by thin air,
so shall you see the innumerable meanings
of my fundamental doctrine be multiplied.
All laws being based on the one law of boundless emptiness,
realize how everything is void of form or an eternal nature.
The victory of indestructibility is for those
who can see through the form of my teachings
and into the hidden nature of Buddhahood.
This is what is known as the Great Vehicle of Deliverance.
Out of fear of having living beings
misunderstand this Law of laws,
please continue to explain to us the deeper essence
of this doctrine of boundless emptiness.
Meditating under the Bodhi tree for so long
and feeling the complexity of all of my teachings and laws,
the Truth of truths has not yet been openly revealed
for fear of it being quickly degraded
and stampeded upon by the many
who come to me to relieve them of their sufferings.
The Law being comparable to water that purifies,
no matter whether the quantity of water is large or small,
the law nonetheless washes away the inherent delusions of living beings.
Think of my teachings as being graded along different
lines of attainment. Some only need a little bit of water
to realize the Buddha nature, whereas other need a whole ocean's worth
before anything takes effect.
As the meanings that are found in my teachings varies,
so too does the type of enlightenment that is obtained
vary alongside the desires of the practitioner's mind.
Though of one enlightened seed,
I appear to sprout forth in every direction
and in every heart of every living being.
Though of one mind,
I appear to be of many minds
and of many formed and formless states.
Though of one enlightened stream of awareness,
I appear to be of many different streams,
each heading into its own particular destination.
This is the world of the Buddhas.
Incomprehensible except to the Comprehending Buddha,
the one life of nirvana is all that is and ever will be.
Seeking for enlightenment,
enlightenment evaporates before your eyes.
Looking into emptiness,
who is looking and who is seeing?
Realizing that there is nothing to realize,
a Buddha lies content at night.
Spinning The Dharma Wheel Once More,
every meaning that I have come to embody
is without an existence of its own.
The mind and the heart is empty of suffering.
Therefore, to think and to feel is to be liberated
from the processes of thinking and feeling.
Contradicting contradictions,
duality is unity when unity is without a form.
by Julian Colgan (Copyright)
http://emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sutra-of-innumerable-meanings-wheel-of.html?view=flipcard
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