“Also, next, oh good man! For
example, there is a man who, not finding the king of the wind, remained for a
long time at sea. He thinks: 'I'll meet with my death here’. As he thinks this,
he
encounters a goodly wind and, through it, crosses the sea. Or he might think: 'This wind is good. It is
a rare thing. Now, we can safely cross the sea, unconcerned with any hardships’.
Thus, all beings, for a long time, live on the sea of birth, death and ignorance,
fighting against poverty and hardship, not finding yet a great wind of Nirvana like
this, and think: 'Surely, we will fall into the realms as hell, animals, and hungry
ghosts'. As these beings think this, they encounter the wind of the Mahayana Great Nirvana Sutra and,
in the course of time, they gain unsurpassed Enlightenment and, arriving at Truth, conceive a rare thought
and express praise: 'This is happiness! Since long I have not yet found or heard
about this secret storehouse of the Tathagata’. Thus, they acquire a pure faith
in the Great Nirvana Sutra.”
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