were to offer an immeasurable quantity of the
seven treasures to fill the worlds as infinite as space as an act of
generosity, the happiness resulting from that virtuous act would not
equal the happiness resulting from a son or daughter of a good family
who gives rise to the awakened mind and reads, recites, accepts, and
puts into practice this sutra, and explains it to others, even if only a
gatha of four lines. In what spirit is this explanation given? Without
being caught up in signs, just according to things as they are, without
agitation. Why is this?
"All composed things are like a dream,
a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
That is how to meditate on them,
that is how to observe them."
After they heard the Lord Buddha deliver this sutra, the Venerable
Subhuti, the bhiksus and bhiksunis, laymen and laywomen, and gods
and asuras, filled with joy and confidence, undertook to put these
teachings into practice. 2 RTEXTR*ch
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