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THE DIAMOND SUTRA

I recollect that as a recluse practising the ordinances of the Kshanti-Paramita,' even then I had no such arbitrary ideas as an entity, a being, a living being, or a personality. There- fore, Subhuti, an enlightened disciple ought to discard as being unreal and illusive, every conceivable form of phenomena. In aspiring

is mine, I am born by my own mystic power (Maya). For whenever there is a relaxation of duty, . . . and an increase of impiety, I then reproduce myself for the protection of the good. . . . I am produced in every age. -Bhagavad-Gita. J. COCKBURN THOMSON. I 66 57 Explained by patient endurance of insult. The virtue of patience, implying constant equanimity under persecution, and excluding hatred and revenge."-Handbook of Chinese Buddhism. EITEL.

"Because, O Subhuti, I remember the past five hundred births, when I was the Rishi- Kshantivadin (preacher of endurance)."-The Vagrakkhedika. MAX MÜLLER.

2 "Let (the Bodhisattva) be concentrated in mind, attentive, ever firm as the peak of Mount Sumeru, and in such a state (of mind) look upon all laws (and things) as having the nature of space (as being void), permanently equal to space, without essence, immovable, without sub- stantiality. These, indeed, are the Laws, all and for ever." Saddharma-Pundarika. H. KERN.

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