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Section 3 — The true doctrine of the Great Vehicle大乘正宗分第三

Jingang Jing (The Diamond Sutra) 金剛般若波羅蜜經 · Kumārajīva, Chinese translation · 402 (Later Qin, 4th year of the Hongshi era) · 1 passages · 127 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

Jingang Jing (The Diamond Sutra) Complete in one volume "All marks that exist are empty and false" — a sutra that teaches one to give rise to the mind without dwelling anywhere. It follows, just as they stand, the thirty-two sections into which Prince Zhaoming divided it. It is told that Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch, heard one line of this sutra and set his heart on awakening.

1Delivering, Yet None Delivered

佛告須菩提：「諸菩薩摩訶薩，應如是降伏其心：所有一切眾生之類，若卵生、若胎生、若濕生、若化生；若有色、若無色；若有想、若無想、若非有想非無想，我皆令入無餘涅槃而滅度之。如是滅度無量無數無邊眾生，實無眾生得滅度者。何以故？須菩提！若菩薩有我相、人相、眾生相、壽者相，即非菩薩。」

The Buddha said to Subhuti, "All bodhisattva-mahasattvas should subdue their minds in this way: 'Of every kind of living being there is — those born from eggs, those born from wombs, those born from moisture, those born by transformation; those with form, those without form; those with thought, those without thought, those neither with thought nor without thought — I shall lead them all into nirvana without remainder (無餘涅槃) and deliver them.'

Yet though measureless, countless, boundless beings are delivered in this way, in truth no being has been delivered. Why is this? Subhuti! Because if a bodhisattva has the mark of a self (我相), the mark of a person (人相), the mark of a being (眾生相), or the mark of a life span (壽者相), that one is not a bodhisattva."

Interlinear notes 1

最大之乘，最正之宗

The greatest of vehicles, the truest of doctrines.

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