‘‘‘The Perfection of Wisdom in 700 Lines,’’ with Mañjuśrī as its guide, teaches that emptiness is not a state to be attained, nor a counterpoint to duality, nor a final doctrine to rest upon.’
Everyday Buddhism
Prajnaparamita
Morning meditation — If I had set out for enlightenment, then I would wish to fully know it.
‘Manjushri: If I had set out for enlightenment, then I would wish to fully know it. But I do not strive after enlightenment, because enlightenment is just the same thing as this Manjushri, the Crown Prince.’
Prajnaparamita
Morning meditation — Those who seek for the Tathagata should seek for the self.
‘Those who seek for the Tathagata should seek for the self. For ‘self’ and ‘Buddha’ are synonymous.’
Prajnaparamita
Morning meditation — Just as the self does absolutely not exist.
‘Just as the self does absolutely not exist, and cannot be apprehended, so also the Buddha. As the self cannot be expressed by any dharma, so also the Buddha.’
Prajnaparamita
Morning meditation — In consequence a perception of the Path will no longer occur to him.
‘In consequence a perception of the Path will no longer occur to him — how much less will he see the Path! “One who has finished with the Path”, that is a synonym of a monk who is an Arhat whose outflows are extinct.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — In the absence of thought-coverings.
‘In the absence of thought-coverings he has not been made to tremble, he has overcome what can upset, in the end sustained by Nirvana.’
Heart of Perfect Wisdom
Morning meditation — The word ‘self’ denotes the same thing.
‘The word ‘self’ denotes the same thing which the word ‘Buddha’ denotes.’
Manjushri
Morning meditation — Just as any living beings depend on.
‘Just as any living beings depend on the great earth — so Bodhisattvas are all upheld by the perfection of wisdom.’
The Buddha
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