The Illuminated Lotus Sutra Project - Ch. 18 Ex. 1
In this chapter the Buddha extols the ability of this sutra to clear the six sense bases to see reality.
THE ADVANTAGES OF A RELIGIOUS PREACHER
And on that occasion the Lord uttered the following stanzas:
1. Hear from me what good qualities shall belong to him who unhesitatingly and undismayed shall preach this Sûtra to the congregated assembly.
2. First, then, his eye (or, organ of vision) shall possess eight hundred good qualities by which it shall be correct, clear, and untroubled.
3. With the carnal eye derived from his parents he shall see the whole world from within and without.
4. He shall see the Meru and Sumeru, all the horizon and other mountains, as well as the seas.
5. He, the hero, sees all, downward to the Avîki and upward to the extremity of existence. Such is his carnal eye.
6. But he has not yet got the divine eye, it having not yet been produced in him; such as here described is the range of his carnal eye.
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You can read previous extracts here.
Text based on the translation by JHC Kern at Sacred Text Archive.
Image copyright to Roberta Mansell
And on that occasion the Lord uttered the following stanzas:
1. Hear from me what good qualities shall belong to him who unhesitatingly and undismayed shall preach this Sûtra to the congregated assembly.
2. First, then, his eye (or, organ of vision) shall possess eight hundred good qualities by which it shall be correct, clear, and untroubled.
3. With the carnal eye derived from his parents he shall see the whole world from within and without.
4. He shall see the Meru and Sumeru, all the horizon and other mountains, as well as the seas.
5. He, the hero, sees all, downward to the Avîki and upward to the extremity of existence. Such is his carnal eye.
6. But he has not yet got the divine eye, it having not yet been produced in him; such as here described is the range of his carnal eye.
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You can read previous extracts here.
Text based on the translation by JHC Kern at Sacred Text Archive.
Image copyright to Roberta Mansell