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BUDDHISM
truth of the Wisdom of the Other Shore lies beyond the range of the vision of this bank. The nature of such a truth may be suggested verbally, but it resists the analysis and arguments of reason. Following, therefore, this suggestion of what is to be known, coincs a description of the perfected state itself; and this is the clue to the curious "way of action" of the candidate for Bodhisativahood:
"There are no obstacles of thought for the Bodhisattva who (leaves to the Wisdom of the Other Shore. Because there are no obstacles of thought, he has no fcar; he has transcended all wrong notions; he abides in enduring virvāņa. All the Buddhas of the past, present, and future," cleaving to the Wisdom of the Other Shore, have awakened 10 the highest, perfect, complete awakening.
"Therefore one should know"-and the text now proceeds to its most mysterious and most helpful, culminating statement: "The Wisdom of the Other Shore is the great magic formula (mantra), the magic formula of great wisdom, the most excellent magic formula, the pecrless magic formula, capable of allaying cvery suffering. It is truth because it is not falschood. A magic formula has been given in the Wisdom of the Other Shore. It sounds as follows:
“'O THOU WHO ART GONE, WHIO ART GONE, WHO ART GONE TO THE OTHER SIORE, WHO ITAST LANDED ON THE OTHER SHORE, O THOU ENLIGHTENMENT, ILAIL!
“Here endeth the Manual of the Heart of the Wisdom of the Other Shore."
The first requirement of the spiritual pupil in India, as we have seen, is the great virtue of faith (úraddha), trust in the teacher and his words. The faith will be corroborated by the pupil's own experience in the course of his spiritual progress,
00 According to the Mahāyana there have been, there are, and there will bc numberless Buddhas; cf. supra, p. 508.
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