At that time Mahamati the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva in consideration of
future generations made this request again of the Bhagavan: Pray tell
me, Bhagavan, about the perfecting of the discipline whereby the
Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas become great Yogins.
The Bhagavan replied: There are four things, Mahamati, by fulfilling
which the Bodhisattvas become great Yogins. What are the four? They
are: (1) To have a clear understanding as to what is seen of Mind
itself,2 (2) to discard the notions of birth, abiding, and disappearance,
(3) to look into [the truth] that no external world obtains, and (4) to
seek for the attainment of inner realization by noble wisdom. Provided
with these four things the Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas become great
Yogins.
How, Mahamati, does the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva come to have a
clear understanding as to what is seen of Mind itself? He comes to it by
recognising that this triple world is nothing but Mind itself, devoid of an
ego and its belongings, with no strivings, no comings-and-goings; that
this triple world is manifested and imagined as real, under the influence
of the habit-energy accumulated since beginningless time by false
reasoning and imagination, and with the multiplicity of objects and
actions in close relationship, and in conformity with the ideas of
discrimination, such as body, property, and abode. Thus, Mahamati, the
Bodhisattva-Mahasattva acquires a thoroughly clear understanding as to
what is seen of Mind itself.
How again, Mahamati, does the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva discard
notions of birth, abiding, and disappearance? By this it is meant that all
things are to be regarded as forms born of a vision or a dream and have
never been created since there are no such things as self, the other, or
bothness. [The Bodhisattvas] will see that the external world exists only
in conformity with Mind-only; and seeing that there is no stirring of the
Vijnanas and that the triple world is a complicated network of causation
and owes its rise to discrimination, they find that all things, inner and
external, are beyond predicability, that there is nothing to be seen as
self-nature, and that [the world] is not to be viewed as born; and
thereby they will conform themselves to the insight that things are of the
nature of a vision, etc., and attain to the recognition that things are
unborn. Establishing themselves on the eighth stage of Bodhisattvahood,
they will experience a revulsion [in their consciousness] by transcending
the Citta, Manas, and ManoVijnana, and the five Dharmas, and the
[three] Svabhavas, and the twofold Egolessness, and thereby attain the
mind-made body (Manomayakaya). Thus, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva-
Mahasattva will discard the notion of birth, abiding, and
disappearance.1
Said Mahamati,1 what is meant by the will-body, Bhagavan?
The Bhagavan replied: It means that one [in this body] can speedily move
unobstructed as he wills; hence the will-body, Mahamati. For instance,
Mahamati, the will [or mind] travels unobstructed over mountains, walls,
rivers, trees, etc., many a hundred thousand yojanas they may be away,
when a man recollects the scenes which had previously come into his
perception, while his own mind keeps on functioning in his body without
the least interruption or hindrance. In the same fashion, Mahamati, the
will-body, in the attainment of the Samadhi called Maya-like and
adorned with such marks as the powers, the psychic faculties, and the
self-control, will be born in the noble paths and assemblies, moving
about as freely as he wishes, as he recalls his original vows and worlds
in order to bring all beings to maturity.
Then, Mahamati, what is meant by the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva having
a good insight into the non-existence of external objects? It means,
Mahamati, that all things are like unto a mirage, a dream, a hair-net; and
seeing that all things are here essentially because of our attachment to
the habit-energy of discrimination which has been maturing since
beginningless time on account of false imagination and erroneous
speculation, the Bodhisattvas will seek after the attainment of selfrealization
by their noble wisdom. Mahamati, furnished with these four
things, Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas become great Yogins. Therefore, in
these, Mahamati, you should exercise yourself.
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