“Oh good man! Why is it like a comet? For example, when a comet appears, famine and illness increases, and people become lean through illness and suffer from worries. The same goes for the comet of desire. It indeed cuts off all the seeds of good and makes common mortals suffer from loneliness, famine, and illness of defilement, causing them to recycle between births and deaths, and suffer from many sorrows. Only the Bodhisattva is not amongst these. This is why we say that things proceed as in the case of a comet.
Oh good man! There are these nine kinds of meditation on the bond of craving, to be made by a Bodhisattva-Mahasattva who abides in the teachings of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana.”
Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 20 - On Holy Actions 2.Oh good man! There are these nine kinds of meditation on the bond of craving, to be made by a Bodhisattva-Mahasattva who abides in the teachings of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana.”
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