"Oh you! If one gained the Path through penance
[the practice of austerities], all animals would have to attain it. That is why
one first subdues the mind and not the body. Hence, I say in my sutra that one
must cut down the forest, but not the tree. Why? From forest, one gains fear,
but not from the tree. If a person wishes adjust your body, it must first
adjust the mind. The mind is the forest, and the body is the tree. So we may
compare things.”
This was the 46th and final Chapter of the All-Wonderful Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra.
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