{"id":5320,"date":"2010-03-04T23:27:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2010-03-04T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:27:47","slug":"inconceivable-cosmic-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/inconceivable-cosmic-proportions\/","title":{"rendered":"Inconceivable Cosmic Proportions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The last cosmic scene of ‘Men in Black’ (which is the only part that stuck to me) reminds me of a part of the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra – especially the parts in blue below. Prepare for a mind-blowing experience as you try to imagine this part of the sutra.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Licchavi Vimalakirti replied, “Reverend Sariputra, for the Tathagatas and the bodhisattvas, there is a liberation called ‘Inconceivable.’ The bodhisattva who lives in the inconceivable liberation can put the king of mountains, Sumeru, which is so high, so great, so noble, and so vast, into a mustard seed. He can perform this feat without enlarging the mustard seed and without shrinking Mount Sumeru. And the deities of the assembly of the four Maharajas and of the Trayastrimsa heavens do not even know where they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only those beings who are destined to be disciplined by miracles see and understand the putting of the king of mountains, Sumeru, into the mustard seed. That, reverend Sariputra, is an entrance to the domain of the inconceivable liberation of the bodhisattvas.<\/p>\n

“Furthermore, reverend Sariputra, the bodhisattva who lives in the inconceivable liberation can pour into a single pore of his skin all the waters of the four great oceans, without injuring the water-animals such as fish, tortoises, crocodiles, frogs, and other creatures, and without the nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, and asuras even being aware of where they are. And the whole operation is visible without any injury or disturbance to any of those living beings.<\/p>\n

“Such a bodhisattva can pick up with his right hand this billion-world-galactic universe as if it were a potter’s wheel and, spinning it round, throw it beyond universes as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, without the living beings therein knowing their motion or its origin, and he can catch it and put it back in its place, without the living beings suspecting their coming and going; and yet the whole operation is visible.<\/span>..<\/p>\n

“Reverend Sariputra, I have shown you only a small part of the entrance into the domain of the bodhisattva who lives in the inconceivable liberation. Reverend Sariputra, to explain to you the teaching of the full entrance into the domain of the bodhisattva who lives in the inconceivable liberation would require more than an aeon, and even more than that.”<\/p>\n

From http:\/\/www2.kenyon.edu\/Depts\/Religion\/Fac\/Adler\/Reln260\/Vimalakirti.htm<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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