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- Some men will attain enlightenment
- Much quicker than others
- It is classified into ‘sudden’ and ‘gradual’
- It is above the comprehension of the ignorants
- It may be explained in ten thousand ways
- But all those explanations
- Traced back to one principle
- Erroneous views keep us in defilement
- Right views remove us from it
- Bodhi is immanent in our essence of mind
- Attempt to look for it elsewhere is erroneous
- Within our impure mind
- The pure one is to be found
- If you wish to find the true way
- Right actions will lead you to it directly
- But if you do not strive for Buddhahood
- You will grope in the dark and never find it
- If we find fault with others
- We ourselves are also in the wrong
- By getting rid of the habit of fault-finding
- We cut off a source of defilement
- When neither hatred nor love disturbs our mind
- Serenely we sleep
- The kingdom of Buddha is in this world
- Within which enlightenment is to be sought
- Right views are called ‘transcendental’
- Erroneous views are called ‘worldly’
- When all views, right or erroneous are discarded
- Then the essence of Bodhi appears
- This stanza is for the ‘sudden’ school
- It is called the ‘Big Ship of Dharma’
- Kalpa after kalpa, a man may be under delusion
- But once enlightened it takes him only a moment
- To attain Buddhahood.
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