The Buddha said to Kasyapa: "It is so, it
is so, oh good man! A person may be faithful and true with respect to what the
sutras say, or may have practiced all the Samadhis, but until it has learned
the Mahaparinirvana, it will say that everything is non-eternal. Once a person
has learned this sutra, it may have illusions, but it will be, so to speak, without
illusions. It benefits humans and heavenly. Why? Because one sees clearly that one’s
own body has the Buddha-Nature within him.
Also, next, oh good man! It is like the case
of the mango tree. When its
flowers first appear, what there is [at that time] is the transformation phase.
When it
bears fruit and when it bestows much
benefit, we speak of the eternal. Oh good man! Thus, a person may be true and faithful
to all the sutras, or may have practiced Samadhis, but while it has not yet given ear to this Great Nirvana Sutra,
everything is based on non-eternal. When a person gives ear to this sutra, although [still] having illusions, it is as though it had
not illusion. This is why I say that it benefits both humans and heavenly. How?
Because that person knows clearly that it has the Buddha-Nature within him. This
is the Eternal.”
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