Heart--Shaped Cross
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From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
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posted July 10, 2006 07:11 PM
 
The Buddha: Subhūti, what do you think? If a person were to fill a room with the seven kinds of jewels and give them away charitably, wouldn't the merit attained by this person be great?Subhūti: Extremely great, World Honored One. And why? This merit has no nature of merit; therefore the tathāgata says that this merit is great. The Buddha: But if there were a person well-attentive to this sūtra, such that he or she could teach a four line verse from it to others, this person's merit would exceed that of the former example. Why? Subhūti, all of the buddhas and all of their teachings of peerless perfect enlightenment spring forth from this sūtra. Subhūti, that which is called the buddhadharma is not the buddhadharma.
- The Diamond Sutra
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