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The Lotus Sutra - 07 Phantom City - 2 The Light that shines in the ten directions
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023881
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
The Lotus sutra – translated by Burton Watson
Our palaces have a brilliance
never known in the past.
What is the cause of this?
Each of us seeks an answer.
Is it because of the birth of some heavenly being of great virtue,
or because the Buddha has appeared in the world
that this great brilliant Light
shines everywhere in the ten directions?
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World-Honored One, most difficult to encounter,
destroyer of all earthly desires,
one hundred and thirty kalpas have passed
and now at last we can see you.
Living beings in their hunger and thirst
are made full with the rain of the Dharma.
One such as was never seen in the past,
one of immeasurable wisdom,
like the udumbara flower
today at last appears directly before us.
Our palaces because they receive your light
are wonderfully adorned.