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    This document discusses the nature of perfect wisdom according to a dialogue between the Lord Buddha and Subhuti. It describes perfect wisdom as being deep, hard to understand, unthinkable, and uncreated. The Lord explains that a bodhisattva courses in perfect wisdom by not attaching to any concepts or views about phenomena. Perfect wisdom is said to be like space - its depth cannot be demonstrated or diminished through speech or non-speech, and bodhisattvas develop it to benefit beings, just as space contains all.

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    This document discusses the nature of perfect wisdom according to a dialogue between the Lord Buddha and Subhuti. It describes perfect wisdom as being deep, hard to understand, unthinkable, and uncreated. The Lord explains that a bodhisattva courses in perfect wisdom by not attaching to any concepts or views about phenomena. Perfect wisdom is said to be like space - its depth cannot be demonstrated or diminished through speech or non-speech, and bodhisattvas develop it to benefit beings, just as space contains all.

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    This document discusses the nature of perfect wisdom according to a dialogue between the Lord Buddha and Subhuti. It describes perfect wisdom as being deep, hard to understand, unthinkable, and uncreated. The Lord explains that a bodhisattva courses in perfect wisdom by not attaching to any concepts or views about phenomena. Perfect wisdom is said to be like space - its depth cannot be demonstrated or diminished through speech or non-speech, and bodhisattvas develop it to benefit beings, just as space contains all.

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    Praise of Perfect Wisdom



    I pay homage to the Perfection of Wisdom
    The perfection of wisdom gives light
    She is unstained and the whole world cannot stain her
    From everyone in the triple world she removes darkness
    and leads them away from the blinding darkness caused by defilements
    and wrong views
    In her there is shelter
    Most excellent are all her works
    She leads us to the safety of the wings of enlightenment
    She brings light to the blind
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    of all dharmas and does not stray from it
    Truly, it is the perfection of wisdom of the Buddhas
    that sets in motion the Wheel of Dharma


    The Elusiveness of Perfect Wisdom


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    The Lord: It is through their essential original nature that those dharmas are not a
    something. Their nature is no-nature and their no-nature is their nature. Because all
    dharmas have one mark only, that is, no mark…It is thus that all points of
    attachment are abandoned.
    Subhuti: Deep, O Lord, is the perfection of wisdom!
    The Lord: Though a depth like that of space.
    Subhuti: Hard to understand, O Lord, is the perfection of wisdom!
    The Lord: Because nothing is known by the enlightened.
    Subhuti: Unthinkable, O Lord, is the perfection of wisdom!
    The Lord: Because the perfection of wisdom is not something that thought has
    access to.
    Subhuti: Uncreated, O Lord, is the perfection of wisdom!
    The Lord: Because no creator can be apprehended
    Subhuti: How then, under these circumstances, should a bodhisattva course in
    perfect wisdom?
    The Lord: A Buddha courses in perfect wisdom if while coursing he does not course
    in the skandhas, or if he does not course in the conviction that the skandhas are
    permanent, or that they are empty, or that they are defective or complete.
    And if he does not even course in the conviction that form is neither partial or
    complete reality, and so for the other skandhas, then he courses in perfect wisdom.
    Subhuti: How well the reasons Bodhisattvas have for attachment and non-
    attachment have been explained!
    The Lord: One courses well in perfect wisdom if one courses without attachment or
    non-attachment and so for the other skandhas…It is thus that Bodhisattvas should
    course in perfect wisdom, rising above attachment altogether.
    Subhuti: It is wonderful, O Lord, how deep the perfection of wisdom is.
    Demonstration does not increase it and non-demonstration does not diminish it.
    The Lord: Well said, Subhuti! It is just as a Tathagata should during his whole life
    speak of space without increase to the volume of space. Nor does space diminish
    when he does not speak of it.
    Subhuti: The development of perfect wisdom is like the development of space.
    Homage should be paid to those Bodhisattvas who are armed with this armor, and
    who win full enlightenment with effort that is like space for the sake of beings who
    are like space.


    course = abide

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