The New World

Vimalakirti from chpt7           Goddess and Shariputra A little Bit about distinctions :) At that time there was a heavenly being, a goddess, in Vimalakirti's room who, seeing these great men and hearing them expound the Law, proceeded to make herself visible and, taking heavenly flowers, scattered them over the bodhisattvas and major disciples. When the flowers touched the bodhisattvas, they all fell to the floor at once, but when they touched the major disciples, they stuck to them and did not fall off. The disciples all tried to shake off the flowers through their supernatural powers, but they could not do so. At that time the goddess said to Shariputra, "Why try to brush off the flowers?" "Such flowers are not in accordance with the Law," he replied. "That's why I try to brush them off."3 The goddess said, "Don't say these flowers are not in accordance with the Law. Why? Because the flowers make no such distinctions.

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Chapter 7 REGARDING LIVING BEINGS At that time Manjushri asked Vimalakirti, "How does the bodhisattva regard living beings?" Vimalakirti replied, "As a conjurer looks on the beings he conjures up-thus does the bodhisattva regard living beings. As the wise view the moon in the water, or a face or form seen in a mirror; as shimmers of heat in a torrid season, as the echo that follows a cry, as clouds in the sky, as foam on the water, bubbles on the water, as a thing no firmer that the trunk of the plantain, no longer lasting than a flash of lightning; as a fifth great element, a sixth component, a seventh sense-media, a thirteenth sense-media, a nineteenth sense-realml-thus does the bodhisattva regard living beings. "As forms in the world of formlessness, as sprouts from charred grain, as mistaken views of the body in one who has entered the stream that leads to the state of arhat, as a reentering of the womb by one no longer subject to rebirth, as the thre