The Vajracchedikā-sūtra with gāthās compiled by Master Fu - Evertype

Mainz 124 fragment H verso + U 2036 (T) verso
[…Subhūti, could an arhat think] like [this], ‘I have attained the fruit of an arhat.’ S[ubhū]ti said, ‘No,
my Lord. If one asks, ‘Why?’ In truth, there is no [a doctrine called arhat. …] it is called a]rhat. My Lord,
whose name is exalted, if like this that [arhat thinks], ‘I have attained the fruit of an arhat,
U 736 (T II S 32a) verso
then it would be seizing upon a self, (seizing upon) human being, (seizing upon) a life. My Lord
whose name is exalted, you deigned to declare about me that I am the best among those who
understand indisputable samādhi and the first arhat of those who at going beyond desire. I do not
think like this: ‘I am the arhat who goes beyond desire. If I […]
U 3214 (T III M 120) + U 3352 (T III TV 59)
[Now tells its gāthā.]
/If sweeps and cleans the place of the mind,/ its name is [to decorate] the Buddha [realm]. /The
merit can not be discussed with the wisdom, /first one has to remove desire and dislike ((Skt. rāgadveṣa).
//
/As for decoration, (it is) […] decorator by the decorated one. / Without thought of self does not exist
thought of human being. 146 / Both discontinuation and everlasting will not [attach and cling] (one
another). / Thereupon [… ] kleśa-obstacle […] 147
Subhūti, if someone else has a body [as large as Mount Sumeru], how about it, [is it large? Subhūti]
said, ‘It is very large, my Lord. If one asks, ‘Why?’
146
The Chinese original text has 無 我 無 人 wuwo wuren ‘there is no (permanent) self, no soul (in a living being);
selflessness’ (= Skt. nimano nirahaṃkāro); see Nakamura 1317b.
147 This line translates the Chinese sentence 穎 脫 出 囂 塵 ying tuochu xiaochen ‘Clever one gets away from the
clamor dust’.