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Chapter 11
11.6 “You are a hero who has been born from wisdom.
You possess the power of methods and strengths.
You are a buddha who is the same as space.
I pay homage to you who have perfected patience. {ii}
11.9 Thus did he praise the one unequaled Lord, and then the youth said, with a
joyous mind, “Unequaled Buddha, who has an inconceivable body, you have
consumed the meal. Through this may I also become a buddha like you, the
god of gods!” [F.40.a]
11.10 In that way, therefore, the youth Candraprabha provided divine food with a
hundred flavors to the Bhagavān. He offered divine coral tree flowers to the
Bhagavān, and praised him with appropriate verses.
11.11 Now, placing his palms together in homage toward the Bhagavān, in his
mind he addressed him with these verses:
11.24 The Bhagavān, knowing the thoughts that were in the mind of the youth
Candraprabha, said to him, “Young man, a bodhisattva mahāsattva will attain
all these qualities, and he will quickly attain the highest, complete
enlightenment of perfect buddhahood, if he possesses just one quality. What
is that one quality? Young man, it is when the bodhisattva mahāsattva knows
the nature of all phenomena.
11.25 “Young man, how does a bodhisattva mahāsattva know the nature of all
phenomena? Young man, a bodhisattva mahāsattva knows that all
phenomena are nameless; they have no names. He knows that all phenomena
have no vocalization, they have no expression in speech, they have no letters,
they have no birth, they have no cessation, they have no characteristics of
cause, they have no characteristics of conditions,507 they are devoid of
characteristics, they have the one characteristic of having no characteristics,
they are devoid of attributes, they cannot be conceived of, they have no
thought, and they have no mentality.”
Then the Bhagavān taught this in the following verses:
11.54 “He will attain the conduct that is within the supreme samādhi
And an endless multitude of other benefits.
He will always have great, unshakable strength
And a majesty that outshines that of kings. {41}
11.68 “The jinas to whom offerings have been made in the past,
The countless buddhas of the future,
And the buddhas who are present in the ten directions,
Are so by having memorized this supreme samādhi of peace. {55}
11.73 “They will also see myself here on Vulture Peak Mountain.
And I, in buddha wisdom, will thus prophesy to them.
Also, after my passing away, there will be Maitreya,527
Who at that time will also prophesy to them. {60}