Great Throughts Treasury

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Lankavatara Sutra NULL

Buddhist Sanskrit Scriptures

"The visible world is nothing but the Mind. They are still in the realm of individuation; their insight is not yet pure."

"Words and sentences are produced by the law of causation and are mutually conditioning – they cannot express the highest Reality."

"Those who argue and discuss without understanding the truth are lost amid all the forms of relative knowledge, running about here and there and trying to justify their view of the substance of ego. If you realize the self in your inmost consciousness, it will appear in its purity. This is the womb of wonder, which is not the realm of those who live only by reason. Pure in its own nature and free from the categories of finite and infinite, Universal Mind is the undefiled wonder, which is wrongly apprehended by many."

"Things are not what they seem. Nor are they otherwise…Deeds exist, but no doer can be found."