The Wisdom of Manjusri by

Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Blazing Wisdom Publications
Published: 2012-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

It commands the masterful ability to clearly distinguish the essential features of each and every worldly phenomenon, the wisdom of discernment, in essence Amitābha. This pacifies ordinary desire.

Carrying out enlightened activity that is unimpeded, like a vajra, is effectual wisdom, in essence Amoghasiddhi, which pacifies ordinary jealousy and laziness.

The heart of all Buddhas, the great, completely pure dharmadhātu, is the wisdom of the expanse of dharmas, in essence Vairocana, which pacifies ordinary obliviousness.

To demonstrate how these also can be classified in terms of body, speech and mind, [the next verses say], "abiding in the heart of all Buddhas, great kāya of all Buddhas, he is the speech of all Buddhas, too."

The mind of the Venerable Lord is the oneness and equality of the six primal wisdoms, which pervades and abides within the hearts of all Buddhas. Since he also perceives and

comprehends all that can be known, we can say 'mind' instead [of heart].

It is also the Venerable Lord who emanates as the kāyas of all Buddhas, and so among all kāyas, he is the greatest. He is a 'kāya' in the sense that he pervades, supports, and manifests.

It is the Venerable Lord, as well, who causes the speech of all Buddhas to issue forth, and is their very essence. He is 'speech' in the sense that he brings clarity, understanding, and renown.

It is he who benefit others, dispelling their darkness while remaining untouched by it. As it says, "Great radiance of the vajra sun, stainless light of the vajra moon, great passion of freedom from desires, effulgent with multi-colored light, in vajra posture of full enlightenment, propounder of the dharma for transient beings, glorious lotus-born Buddha…."

The 'great sun' is the wisdom of non-duality, which dries up the ocean of existence. The light of the moon clears away the darkness of ignorance. Freed of ordinary desire, his passionate concern is for those to be trained, and [fulfilling] his purpose.

Or else, to those individuals who are to be tamed through the pāramitās, he teaches the dharma in terms of freedom from passion, whereas to those predisposed toward secret mantra, he teaches the dharma in terms of harnessing passion within one's experience.

As a sign that wisdom and compassion are ablaze internally, outwardly he blazes with multicolored lights. As a sign of inseparable skillfulness and prajñā, he sits in vajra posture.

It should be understood that the way in which Buddhas propound the dharma out of love for sentient beings is nonconceptually, as natural utterance. And as the lotus represents being free of any fault or defect, it is identified as the birthplace of all Buddhas.

How does that work? "[H]older of the treasury of omniscient wisdom, monarch with mastery of manifold magic, great holder of secret mantra and vidyā mantra."

He holds the treasury of omniscient wisdom, since he knows all that there is, just as it is. His qualities exceed any specified amount, he has triumphed over the māras, and, through his magical emanations, he employs a great variety of methods for taming others according to their diverse interests.

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