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Section 24 — Merit and wisdom beyond compare福智無比分第二十四
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.
1Greater Than Heaps of Treasure Like Mount Sumeru
「須菩提！若三千大千世界中，所有諸須彌山王，如是等七寶聚，有人持用布施；若人以此《般若波羅蜜經》，乃至四句偈等，受持讀誦，為他人說，於前福德百分不及一，百千萬億分、乃至算數譬喻所不能及。」
"Subhuti! Suppose someone took heaps of the seven treasures as great as all the Sumeru mountain kings in the great thousandfold world-system, and gave them away. And suppose someone took up and kept even a four-line verse from this Prajna-paramita Sutra, reading and reciting it, and spoke it for others. The merit of the first is not one part in a hundred, nor one part in a hundred thousand myriads of millions, and no reckoning or parable can reach it."
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福智甚大，無物可比
Merit and wisdom so great that nothing can be set beside them.