Saudara Sedharma Sekalian,
Aku baru-baru ini mempelajari Sutra Vimalakirti, isinya sungguh bagus, sangat
menyentuh hati, sangat mencerminkan semangat seorang Bodhisattva.
Tetapi sampai sekarang saya belum pernah mendengarkan adanya ceramah atau
diskusi yang membahas mengenai Sutra Vimalakirti ini, mungkin saudara-saudara
ku sekalian ada yang pernah membahas, atau memiliki sumber-sumber pembahasan
tentang sutra ini, bisa membantu memberikan masukan tambahan.... Mohon
bantuannya untuk memberikan sumber-sumber pembahasan Sutra Vimalakirti...
cuplikan sutra:
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Vimalakirti replied, "Manjusri, when a bodhisattva considers all living beings
in this way, he thinks: 'Just as I have realized the Dharma, so should I teach
it to living beings.' Thereby, he generates the love that is truly a refuge for
all living beings; the love that is peaceful because free of grasping; the love
that is not feverish, because free of passions; the love that accords with
reality because it is equanimous in all three times; the love that is without
conflict because free of the violence of the passions; the love that is nondual
because it is involved neither with the external nor with the internal; the
love that is imperturbable because totally ultimate.
"Thereby he generates the love that is firm, its high resolve unbreakable,
like a diamond; the love that is pure, purified in its intrinsic nature; the
love that is even, its aspirations being equal; the saint's love that has
eliminated its enemy; the bodhisattva's love that continuously develops living
beings; The Tathagata's love that understands reality; the Buddha's love that
causes living beings to awaken from their sleep; the love that is spontaneous
because it is fully enlightened spontaneously; the love that is enlightenment
because it is unity of experience; the love that has no presumption because it
has eliminated attachment and aversion; the love that is great compassion
because it infuses the Mahayana with radiance; the love that is never exhausted
because it acknowledges voidness and selflessness; the love that is giving
because it bestows the gift of Dharma free of the tight fist of a bad teacher;
the love that is morality because it improves immoral living
beings; the love that is tolerance because it protects both self and others;
the love that is effort because it takes responsibility for all living beings;
the love that is contemplation because it refrains from indulgence in tastes;
the love that is wisdom because it causes attainment at the proper time; the
love that is liberative technique because it shows the way everywhere; the love
that is without formality because it is pure in motivation; the love that is
without deviation because it acts from decisive motivation; the love that is
high resolve because it is without passions; the love that is without deceit
because it is not artificial; the love that is happiness because it introduces
living beings to the happiness of the Buddha. Such, Manjusri, is the great love
of a bodhisattva."
Manjusri: What is the great compassion of a bodhisattva?
Vimalakirti: It is the giving of all accumulated roots of virtue to all
living beings.
Manjusri: What is the great joy of the bodhisattva?
Vimalakirti: It is to be joyful and without regret in giving.
Manjusri: What is the equanimity of the bodhisattva?
Vimalakirti: It is what benefits both self and others.
Manjusri: To what should one resort when terrified by fear of life?
Vimalakirti: Manjusri, a bodhisattva who is terrified by fear of life should
resort to the magnanimity of the Buddha.
Manjusri: Where should he who wishes to resort to the magnanimity of the
Buddha take his stand?
Vimalakirti: He should stand in equanimity toward all living beings.
Manjusri: Where should he who wishes to stand in equanimity toward all living
beings take his stand?
Vimalakirti: He should live for the liberation of all living beings.
Manjusri: What should he who wishes to liberate all living beings do?
Vimalakirti: He should liberate them from their passions.
Manjusri: How should he who wishes to eliminate passions apply himself?
Vimalakirti: He should apply himself appropriately.
Manjusri: How should he apply himself, to "apply himself appropriately"?
Vimalakirti: He should apply himself to productionlessness and to
destructionlessness.
Manjusri: What is not produced? And what is not destroyed?
Vimalakirti: Evil is not produced and good is not destroyed.
Manjusri: What is the root of good and evil?
Vimalakirti: Materiality is the root of good and evil.
Manjusri: What is the root of materiality?
Vimalakirti: Desire is the root of materiality.
Manjusri: What is the root of desire and attachment?
Vimalakirti: Unreal construction is the root of desire.
Manjusri: What is the root of unreal construction?
Vimalakirti: The false concept is its root.
Manjusri: What is the root of the false concept?
Vimalakirti: Baselessness.
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