“Also, next, oh good man! For
example, a good doctor is well versed in all sutras and arts. His knowledge is
so extensive that it goes beyond the eight [kinds of treatment methods]. He
teaches what he knows to his son. He makes his son become acquainted with all the medicinal herbs of watery places, lands, mountains and valleys. He
teaches him by degrees, expounding the
eight kinds; and then, he
finally makes
him acquainted with the
Supreme Art. The same is the case with the Tathagata, the Alms-Deserving and All-Enlightened One. First,
he resorts to an expedient and makes his children, i.e. his bhiksus, annihilate
all defilements and learn to abide in a
thought of the impurity of the body, and also a thought of the instability
(impermanence) [of all dharmas /laws]. We speak of ‘watery places' and 'mountain valleys’. By
'water' is
meant that the suffering
of the body is like watery foam, and by 'land'
is
meant the
instability of the body, like that (instability) of the plantain tree. By 'mountain
valley' is meant the practice of selflessness, living as someone fully garbed (covered) by
defilements. For this reason, the body is called ‘devoid of the self’. The Tathagata
thus, step by step, teaches his disciples the nine types of sutras and makes them
thoroughly understand these, and after this, he teaches the
hidden Dharma of the Tathagata. For the sake of his sons,
he speaks about the Eternity of the Tathagata. The Tathagata thus exposes the
Mahayana Great Nirvana Sutra. For the sake of both the aspirant and the non-aspirant, it gives them the cause of
enlightenment, except for the icchantika. Thus, oh good man, this Mahayana Great
Nirvana Sutra is an indescribably, boundlessly, and all-wonderfully rare thing.
Know that this (sutra) is the unsurpassed doctor, the most honorable, the most supreme King of
all sutras.”
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