The Temporal Aspect of the Beings

"Oh good man! If a person asks: 'Is there a fruit in the seed or not?’ Answer definitely: either 'is' or 'not-is'. Why? Without the seed, we cannot gain the fruit. Hence, we say 'is'. The seed does not yet germinated. Hence, 'not-is'. Because of this, we say 'is' or 'not-is'.

Why? Although there exists the time difference, the body is one. The same is the case with the Buddha-Nature of the beings. 'If someone says that in the being there is a Buddha-Nature separately, this is not so. Why? Because the being is the Buddha-Nature, and the Buddha Nature is the being. Through the difference in time, we have the difference of the Pure and the non-Pure'."

Oh good man! If a person asks: ‘Can this seed definitely call forth fruit, or can this fruit truly call forth a seed?’ Answer definitely: ‘It either calls forth or it does not’."

Read more on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 41, on Bodhisattva Kasyapa 2.

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