Vulture Peak

I can still make merit and enjoy sensual pleasures at the same time.

The Buddha appeared right in front of him, levitated from Vulture Peak.

Think about that.

Suppose the Buddha were to appear in front of you as you're thinking your thoughts of giving up.

I'll just tell the story.

So Shakyamuni... is giving a lecture on Vulture Peak.

And, you know, there's like

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In the real world, the pure world, No separation exists.

Why wait for another time and another meeting? The teaching on Vulture Peak is here today.

Who else are you looking for to preserve the way? He's saying don't rely on the Buddhas and ancestors.

Rely on us.

Thus I have heard.

At one time the Blessed One was dwelling in Rajgat at Vulture Peak Mountain, together with a great community of monks and a great community of bodhisattvas.

Also gathered there were gods, non-gods, and other types of sentient beings which may be called human, although not homo sapiens such as Nagas.

The definition of human is able to express abstract concepts in a language.

It could be a trap.

If it looks like the Thunderclap Temple, then we must have reached Vulture Peak, the home of the Buddha, Sanzang said excitedly.

Don't confuse me and delay my mission.

No, no, Wukong explained.

I have been to Vulture Peak a few times.

This is the wrong path.

Even so, Bajie said, it still looks like a good place.

A sutra is a sermon of the Buddha or one of his enlightened disciples, and the cats were chanting it.

It is a teaching given to the founder of our order, Bodhi Purma, by a bodhisattva named Avalokiteshvara when they were at Vulture's Peak.

The Buddha saw Bodhi Purma listen to the Heart Sutra earlier that day at Vulture's Peak and knew that a special version was needed for cats.

May I ask what the Purring Sutra says? Of course, Mishu replied.

He then took me over to the banners hanging on the walls of this cavern.

I mean, it's, to some degree, it seems to have plagiarized Gotika, or at least maybe both of them are based on an earlier story, because it's the same story of, of the Isigili, the black rock at Isigili Cave was the, the place where both of them self-deleted.

And both times, the Buddha was staying on Vulture Peak and came, I mean, through his clairvoyance, through his divine eye, he knew that they had died, and he knew that they were enlightened at death.

And so he, he brought the Sangha monks to, you know, dispose of the body, and then they would see this dark mist moving across the ground, and the Buddha would point it out and say, "That's Mara, the evil one, searching for the consciousness of Gotika or Vakkali, but he won't find it because their consciousness has become unmanifest." I think Channa, uh, was a slightly different case.

I think he was just, like, terminally ill.

Ah, my friend, if it were possible to conquer time and space like the bodhisattvas, so that I could look upon that marvellous assembly, how happy should I be! Why, the tengu exclaimed, that pious wish of yours can easily be satisfied.

I perfectly well remember the assembly on the vulture peak, and I can cause everything that happened there to reappear before you, exactly as it occurred.

It is our greatest delight to represent such holy matters.

Come this way with me.

The voice of the Buddha Sakyamuni proclaiming the perfect way.

Then the priest, opening his eyes in a great radiance, perceived that all things had been changed.

The place was indeed the Vulture Peak, the holy Indian mountain Gridhrakuta, and the time was the time of the Sutra of the Lotus of the Good Law.

Now there were no pines about him.