The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching), Or, Prajna-Paramita
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. . Even though I am unborn, of changeless essence, and the lord also of all which exist, yet, in presiding over nature (Prakrita), which 58 THE DIAMOND SUTRA I recollect that as a recluse practising the ordinances of the Kshanti-Paramita/ even then I had no such arbitrary ideas as an entity, a being, a living being, or a personality. There- fore, Subhuti, an enlightened disciple ought to discard as being unreal and illusive, every conceivable form of phenomena.^ In aspiring is mine, I am born ...by my own mystic power (Maya). For whenever there is a relaxation of duty, . . . and an increase of impiety, I then reproduce myself for the protection of the good. ... I am produced in every age." — Bhagavad-Gita. J. Cockburn Thomson. ' " Explained by patient endurance of insult. The virtue of patience, implying constant equanimity under persecution, and excluding hatred and revenge." — Handbook of Chinese Buddhism. Eitel. " Because, O Subhuti, I remember the past five hundred births, when I was the Rishi- Kshantivadin (preacher of endurance)." — The Vagrakkhedika.
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