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# Pure Name Bodhisattva speaks with Greatest Wisdom Bodhisattva
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- Published: 2017-08-01T05:44:42.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-30T04:01:06.000Z
- Author: Timothy
- Tags: Buddhism, Pure Name Buddha, compassion, happy, philosophy, #wordpress, #Import 2025-06-01 12:12

Pure Name Bodhisattva (he is a divide consciousness from Pure Name Buddha) and Greatest Wisdom Bodhisattva (divide consciousness from Dragon Buddha) are speaking to each other in front of many students – Rohan, Energy Gods and Bodhisattva – to help those students learn wisdom.

> Greatest Wisdom Bodhisattva asks Pure Name Bodhisattva, “How does a Bodhisattva observe other life forms?”

Pure Name Bodhisattva answers:

Like a wise man views:

“-Like the moons reflection in water

– like a mirage;

– like bubbles in water;

– like trying to see the trails from birds flying in the air;

– like freezing lightning;

– like smoke without fire;

– like being born blind and trying to understand what colour is;

– like looking for a 6th development;

– like taking a mirror’s reflection as real self;

– like thinking a stone statue of a woman can become pregnant;

– like trying to think a Bodhisattva has greed, hate and stupidity;

– like trying to think a Buddha still has worry.

This is how a Bodhisattva observes life forms.”

> Greatest Wisdom Bodhisattva now asks Pure Name Bodhisattva, “If all the life forms are just illusions, how do you show kindness to them?”

Pure Name Bodhisattva answers:

“Help them aware life forms are just like that, illusion.

Aware of that truth is already true kindness.”

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/Vimalakirti.htm

Thereupon, Manjusri, the crown prince, addressed the Licchavi Vimalakirti: “Good sir, how should a bodhisattva regard all living beings?”

Vimalakirti replied, “Manjusri, a bodhisattva should regard all livings beings as a wise man regards the reflection of the moon in water or as magicians regard men created by magic. He should regard them as being like a face in a mirror; like the water of a mirage; like the sound of an echo; like a mass of clouds in the sky; like the previous moment of a ball of foam; like the appearance and disappearance of a bubble of water; like the core of a plantain tree; like a flash of lightning; like the fifth great element; like the seventh sense-medium; like the appearance of matter in an immaterial realm; like a sprout from a rotten seed; like a tortoise-hair coat; like the fun of games for one who wishes to die; like the egoistic views of a stream-winner; like a third rebirth of a once-returner; like the descent of a nonreturner into a womb; like the existence of desire, hatred, and folly in a saint; like thoughts of avarice, immorality, wickedness, and hostility in a bodhisattva who has attained tolerance; like the instincts of passions in a Tathagata; like the perception of color in one blind from birth; like the inhalation and exhalation of an ascetic absorbed in the meditation of cessation; like the track of a bird in the sky; like the erection of a eunuch; like the pregnancy of a barren woman; like the unproduced passions of an emanated incarnation of the Tathagata; like dream-visions seen after waking; like the passions of one who is free of conceptualizations; like fire burning without fuel; like the reincarnation of one who has attained ultimate liberation.

“Precisely thus, Manjusri, does a bodhisattva who realizes the ultimate selflessness consider all beings.”

Manjusri then asked further, “Noble sir, if a bodhisattva considers all living beings in such a way, how does he generate the great love toward them?”

Vimalakirti replied, “Manjusri, when a bodhisattva considers all living beings in this way, he thinks: ‘Just as I have realized the Dharma, so should I teach it to living beings.’