Buddhahood 2, 5

The Founding Master said, “The great loving-kindness and great compassion of the Buddha radiates more warmth and brightness than the sun. Thus, where this loving-kindness and compassion reach, the ignorant minds of sentient beings melt away into the mind of wisdom; their minds of cruelty melt away into the mind of loving-kindness and compassion; the mind of miserliness and greed melts away into the mind of generous charity; and the discriminative mind of the four signs melts away into the all-encompassing mind. Therefore, the awesome power and radiant brightness of this loving-kindness and compassion are incomparable.”  <2>

 

 

The Founding Master said, “If people who cook or tailor well have the right materials, they can make whatever they want or mend whatever may be defective. So too, a great person of the Way who has penetrated into all dharmas can manipulate the myriad dharmas in order to create a new one or to rectify an old one, but a person of the Way of lesser caliber may utilize or transmit dharmas that already exist but does not have the competence to create new ones or to rectify old ones.” A disciple asked, “Which dharma status do we need to reach in order to acquire such ability?” The Founding Master said, “One will have to be a person of the Way of at least the rank of beyond the household. For such persons of the Way, the activity of their six sense organs all manifest as the dharma, thus becoming models for tens of thousands of generations.”     <5>