Samdhinirmocana-sutra

Chapter II"World-honored One, when I saw them, I thought that all thosevenerable persons were engaged in addressing these various issuesand proposing their interpretations, each according to theinsights he had attained. But, note well, all of them cherishedtheir pride and, because they clung to that pride, they were unableto comprehend the one universal taste of the truth of ultimatemeaning. But you, World-honored One, have alreadyexplained that the descriptive mark of the truth of ultimatemeaning is rare, most subtle indeed, most profound, difficult tofathom. You have explained that one universal taste as difficultto fathom. World-honored One, if practicing monks find itdifficult to fathom this one universal taste of the truth of ultimatemeaning in this holy teaching, then how much harder will itbe for heretics to understand it?" 11Then the World-honored One addressed Subhtiti and said: "Thisis so, Subhtiti, for I have been awakened to the truth of ultimatemeaning which is of one universal taste, most subtle, most profound,most difficult to fathom. Having been awakened, I declare,preach, explain, and illumine it for the sake of others. What is itthat I have preached, Subhtiti? I have preached that the purifiedcontent of understanding in all the aggregates is the truth of ultimatemeaning. I have preached that the purified content of understandingin all dependent co-arising, in sustenance, in therealms, in recollection, in true severance, in the supernatural abilities,in the factors of awakening, and in the factors of the path isthe truth of ultimate meaning. 12 This purified content of understandingis characterized as being of one taste, being undifferentiatedin all the aggregates, in all the bases, in all they discussed [above], 692afor it is of one taste and not differentiated. It is from this principlethat the truth of ultimate meaning is of one universal taste."Furthermore, Subhtiti, once those practicing monks who cultivatecentering have understood the suchness of a single group[of questions], the selflessness of the teaching on ultimate meaning,then they will not engage in analyzing one after the other theaggregates, bases, dependent co-arising, sustenance, truth, the23