Tag: Cosmic Awareness

• Chapter 19–Perfuming the Universe

  

  Further, Satatasamitabhiyukta, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva who preserves, shares, studies, and writes this Sacred Teaching (Dharmapāryaya), is blessed with a perfect sense of smell, endowed with eight hundred fine qualities. With this refined sense, he can detect various odors in the entire universe, inwardly and outwardly. These include unpleasant and pleasant smells, foul odors, and the…

  William Altig

  January 20, 2024

  Chapter 19, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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• Chapter 19–Hearing the Universe: The Twelve Hundred Sensory Qualities

  

  Moreover, Satatasamitabhiyukta (Ever and Constantly Strenuous), whether a young man from a noble family or a young woman who shares and teaches this Sacred Teaching to others, will possess twelve hundred fine qualities of the ear. They will hear all the sounds produced in the universe, from the depths of the great hell known as…

  William Altig

  January 19, 2024

  Chapter 19, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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• Chapter 7–The Singular Path to Nirvana: The Tathagata’s Guiding Illusion in the Forest of Delusion

  

  When the Tathagata perceives that the moment for his total extinction is near and observes that the assembly is pure, faithful, immersed in the law of emptiness, devoted to meditation and profound contemplation, then the Tathagata, recognizing the appropriate time, gathers all Bodhisattvas and disciples to instruct them thus: In this world, monks, there is…

  William Altig

  November 30, 2023

  Chapter 7, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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