Part 15-3
“If there are people who can accept and hold, read and recite, and explain this Sutra extensively to people, the Realised One knows all these people and sees all these people; every one of them achieves immeasurable, incalculable, boundless, inconceivable virtues. Such people are in effect bearing the unexcelled complete perfect enlightenment of the Realised One.”
Commentary:
Those who can accept and hold, read and recite, and explain this Sutra extensively to people, as mentioned in the proceeding part, implies enlightened people who are aware that this Sutra is one with themselves. ‘The Realised One knows all these people and sees all these people’ means that these people can see the Buddha all the time. In fact, there is nothing that the Realised One, the Buddha doesn’t see. He always sees all sentient beings regardless of whether or not we can accept and hold, read and recite, and explain this Sutra extensively to people. Even at this moment we are in his sight, and we cannot escape from it.
The problem is that we cannot see Him. The purpose of Buddhism is to teach people how to see the Buddha in person. So, what matters here is that we should be able to see the Buddha in person. Then, we can know that the Buddha sees us all the time. When we cannot see Him, His seeing us is of no meaning to us, no matter how much He may see us.
Student: “How do you see the Buddha?”
Master: “I’ve never seen Him since I saw Him just once before.”
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