A dialogue associated with the Buddha and Subhūti explores the bodhisattva’s work without clinging to a fixed self, person, being or attainment.
Generosity and liberative activity are cultivated without turning giver, recipient or spiritual success into something independently existing.
The text repeatedly unsettles rigid concepts. This is an approach to wisdom within compassionate activity, rather than a reason to withdraw from ethical life.
It has been especially influential in East Asia and is an important scriptural presence in Chan and Zen history.
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