You should see form like a man blind from birth, hear sounds as if they were echoes, smell scents as if they were like wind, experience tastes without any discrimination, touch tangible objects without there being in gnosis any contact, and know things with the consciousness of an illusory creature. That which is without a state of being self and a state of being other does not burn. And what does not burn will not be extinguished.

Buddha Shakyamuni

The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra "The Teaching of Vimalakīrti", 3.12

translated by Robert Thurman


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