> On 29 Aug 2006 19:50:49 -0700, "Alex" yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, go get a life will you!
>

>>Chapter 2
>>If a person hears this Law, delights and praises it,
>>even if he utters just one word,
>>then he has made offering
>>to all the Buddhas of the 3 existences.
>>But a person like this is very rarely found,
>>rarer than the udambara flower.
>>You should have no doubts.
>>I, being king of the doctrines,
>>make this announcement to the entire great assembly,
>>I employ only the single vehicle way
>>to teach and convert the bodhisattvas,
>>I have no voice-hearers disciples.
>>You, Shariputra,
>>and the voice-hearers and bodhisattvas,
>>you should understand this wonderful Law
>>is the secret crux of the Buddhas.
>>In the evil world of the 5 impurities
>>those who merely delight in and are attached to the desires,
>>living beings such as this,
>>in the end will never seek the Buddha way.
>>When evil persons in ages to come
>>hear the Buddha preach the single vehicle,
>>they will be confused, will not believe of accept it,
>>will reject the Law and fell into the evil paths.
>>But when there are those with a sense of shame, persons of purity
>>who have determined to seek the Buddha way,
>>then for the sake of such as these
>>one should widely praise the way of the single vehicle.
>>Shariputra, you should understand this.
>>The Law of the Buddhas is like this.
>>Employing ten thousand, a million expedient means,
>>they accord with what is appropriate in preaching the Law.
>>Those who are not versed in the matter
>>cannot fully understand this.
>>But you and the others already know
>>how the Buddhas, the teachers of the world,
>>accord with what is appropriate in employing expedient means.
>>You will have no more doubts or perplexities
>>but, your minds filled with great joy,
>>will know that you yourselves will attain Buddhahood.