THEY ARISE
FROM DHARMA, EIGHT
" Subhuti, what do you think, if a person gave as a gift the seven kinds
of precious gems in quantity enough to fill up a Threefold Great Thousand
World System, would such a person obtain many blessings and virtues?"
Subhuti said, "Very many World Honored One. Why? These blessings and virtues
do not refer to the essential nature of blessings and virtues. Therefore,
the Thus Come One says they are many blessings and virtues." "If on the
other hand, a person were to accept and uphold even so few as four lines
of verse from this Sutra and speak them for others, this person's blessings
would surpass the blessings of the individual mentioned above. Why? Subhuti,
all Buddhas and their Dharma of Anuttarasamyaksambodhi come from this
Sutra. Subhuti, by this I mean the Buddha and the Dharma are not the Buddha
and the Dharma."
