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The Precious Scroll of Incense Mountain, Part 2 157 and the seals and names of their birth and death, and with their colleagues they ascend to the highest ranks, roaming through fine realms where they can observe all phenomena, but they do not allow other people to know them. They claim to be in possession of the Way and establish sects and schools. They practice magic and abstain from grain, and by manifesting miracles they delude the masses, deceiving and denying the sages and saints! 44 All these are false ways. Those who practice them may be compared to gibbons and monkeys who, arm in arm, dangle from a tree on a steep cliff in the attempt to reach the river below and grab the moon—it is all wasted effort that will turn to nothing. People with the right cause and the right view are never like this.’’ He then replied with the following gātha: Those wishing to penetrate the true pure realm of the Tathāgata, Should purify their body and heart until they are perfectly empty. Don’t study spirit-journeys, don’t follow alchemical methods— Only now we see that our earlier efforts were wrongly applied! At this time the immortal told the disciples: ‘‘Once in the past, numberless kalpas ago, during the time of the buddha Ratnagarbha, 45 I was the first crown prince in the Palace of Pure Sounds. I left the family and practiced the Way, and to this very day my body and mind have not wearied. Each and every one I save and assist, transforming my body according to need. The current emperor was a patron of mine in that earlier existence, and Marvelous Book and Marvelous Sound were good friends in that earlier life. All the other palace women and ministers were faithful donors who aided my cause, and in that earlier life we established a good bond. As a result we have followed each other from age to age.’’ She then composed the following gātha: In immeasurable light, I purely contemplate the cries of the world, As I have come to this land to ferry across all sentient beings. For a long time I lived secluded on Potalaka, rarely known to men, It was in Manifest Dew of the Tang dynasty I first became known. 46 From this time onward, the immortal was known as the Bodhisattva Who Contemplates the Cries of the World. Her Self-so body
158 ThePreciousScrollofIncenseMountain,Part2 is enveloped in strings of jewels, and on her head she wears a pearl crown. In her hands she holds her pure vase and a willow wand, and her feet rest on a thousand-petal lotus flower. Streaming from the crown of her head, a white ray of light universally illuminates the innumerable worlds. All the people then asked the Buddha: ‘‘World-honored One, as to the original life and the causal ground of the immortal of Incense Mountain, please allow the faithful to joyfully proclaim what it is they receive and uphold.’’ He replied with the following gātha: This tale of cause and circumstances is not something rare, As it is received and upheld by all of the saints and sages. Pull the nail from your eye and remove the barrier of clouds: The one nature is perfectly bright, equal to Great Emptiness. At that time the World-honored One said to the monks and nuns, laymen and laywomen: ‘‘Listen attentively, and I will explain everything to you. This is the brightest tathāgata of the Right Dharma among the ancient buddhas. Of all the buddhas, her kindness and compassion are the greatest. Out of pity for all living beings, she manifested herself in the mortal world. She appeared to enter into the stream of transmigration, and her transformation allowed her to share the experience [of sentient beings]. She was able to donate her body and heart in order to save those who are deluded so they might go to the Pure Land. She donated both her eyes, and now she has received a thousand eyes in return. She donated both her arms, and now she has received a thousand arms in return. That is why she is called the one with a thousand arms and a thousand eyes, the greatly kind and greatly compassionate one, the one who saves from suffering and from hardships, the one of wide and great numinous might, the tathāgata who responds to prayers, the one of right and universal wisdom, the one whose illuminated behavior is perfect, the unsurpassed mahāsattva who knows how to go into the world of men to save them, 47 the hero who regulates and rules, the teacher of devas and humans, the Buddha, and the Worldhonored One. These are the ten titles of the Bodhisattva Who Contemplates the Cries of the World.’’ And then he recited the following gātha: The compassionate teacher Guanyin suffered Māra’s enmity, She left this great teaching that is transmitted to the world.
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