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THE DIAMOND SUTRA

as an entity, a being, a living being, or a personality. And why? Because, the entity is in reality non-entity; and a being, a living being, or a personality, are ideas equally nebulous and hypothetical.^[1] Wherefore, discarding every arbitrary idea of phenomena, the wise and wholly enlightened were severally designated Buddha."^[2]

The Lord Buddha, assenting, said unto Subhuti: "If, in future ages, disciples destined to hear this Scripture, neither become perturbed

↑ "They have been divided into existing and non-existing, real and unreal, by those who had wrong notions; other laws also, of permanency, of being produced, of birth from something already produced, are wrongly assumed."— Saddharma - Pundarika. H. Kern.
↑ But, O Bhagavat, there will not arise in them any idea of a self, of a being, of a living being, of a person, nor does there exist for them any idea of no-idea. And why? Because, the idea of a self is no-idea, the idea of a being is no idea, the idea of a living being is no-idea, the idea of a person is no-idea. And why? Because, the blessed Buddhas are freed from all ideas." — The Vagrakkhedika. Max Müller.

[1] "They have been divided into existing and non-existing, real and unreal, by those who had wrong notions; other laws also, of permanency, of being produced, of birth from something already produced, are wrongly assumed."— Saddharma - Pundarika. H. Kern.

[2] But, O Bhagavat, there will not arise in them any idea of a self, of a being, of a living being, of a person, nor does there exist for them any idea of no-idea. And why? Because, the idea of a self is no-idea, the idea of a being is no idea, the idea of a living being is no-idea, the idea of a person is no-idea. And why? Because, the blessed Buddhas are freed from all ideas." — The Vagrakkhedika. Max Müller.

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