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Good people, this body is impermanent, without durability, without strength, without firmness, a thing that decays in a moment, not to be relied on.
It suffers, it is tormented, a meeting place of manifold ills.
Good people, no person of enlightened wisdom could depend on a thing like this body
This body is like a cluster of foam, nothing you can grasp or handle.
This body is like a bubble that cannot continue for long.
This body is like a flame born of longing and desire.
This body is like the plantain that has no firmness in its trunk.
This body is like a phantom, the product of error and confusion.
This body is like a dream, compounded of false and empty visions.
This body is like a shadow, appearing through karma causes.
This body is like an echo, tied to causes and conditions.
This body is like a drifting cloud, changing and vanishing in an instant.
This body is like lightning, barely lasting from moment to moment.
This body is like earth that has no subjective being.
This body is like fire, devoid of ego.
This body is like wind that has no set life span.
This body is like water, devoid of individuality.
This body has no reality but makes these four elements its lodging.
This body is void, removed from self and self's possessions.
This body is without understanding, like plants or trees, tiles or pebbles.
This body is without positive action, blown about by the wind.
This body is impure, crammed with defilement and evil.
This body is empty and unreal; though for a time you may bathe and cleanse, clothe and feed it, in the end it must crumble and fade.
This body is plague-ridden, beset by a hundred and one ills and anxieties.
This body is like the abandoned well on the hillside, old age pressing in on it.
This body has no fixity, but is destined for certain death.
This body is like poisonous snakes, vengeful bandits, or an empty village, a mere coming together of components, realms, and sense-fields.
Good people, a thing like this is irksome and hateful, and therefore you should seek the Buddha body. Why? Because the Buddha body is the Dharma body.
It is born from immeasurable merits and wisdom.
It is born from precepts, meditation, wisdom, emancipation, and the insight of emancipation.
It is born from pity, compassion, joy, and indifference.
It is born of the various paramitas such as almsgiving, keeping of the precepts, forbearance and gentleness, assiduousness in religious practice, meditation, emancipation and samadhi, wide knowledge and wisdom.
It is born of expedient means, born of the six transcendental powers, born of the three understandings, born of the thirty-seven elements of the Way, born of concentration and insight, born of the ten powers, the four kinds of fearlessness, and the eighteen unshared properties.
It is born of the cutting off of all things not good and the gathering in of all good things, born of the truth, born of the avoidance of indulgence and laxity. The body of the Thus Come One is born of immeasurable numbers of pure and spotless things such as these.
Good people, if you wish to gain the Buddha body and do away with the ills that afflict all living beings, then you must set your minds on attaining anuttara-samyak-sambodhi. (en) |
