From The Diamond Sutra Chapter 3, pg 77.
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/prajparagen2.pdf
The Buddha told Subhuti, “all Bodhisattvas, Mahàsattvas, should thus subdue their hearts with the vow, “I must cause all living beings — those born from eggs, born from wombs, born from moisture, born by transformation; those with form, those without form, those with thought, those without thought, those not totally with thought, and those not totally without thought — to enter nirvana without residue and be taken across to extinction. Yet of the immeasurable, boundless numbers of living beings thus taken across to extinction, there is actually no living being taken across to extinction. And why? Subhuti, if a Bodhisattva has a mark of self, a mark of others, a mark of living beings, or a mark of a life, he is not a Bodhisattva.
The Buddha told Subhuti how all Bodhisattvas should subdue their hearts. All can mean “many," the entire host of Bodhisattvas, or it can refer to each individual Bodhisattva; or it can refer to just one specific Bodhisattva. Many is just one, one is likewise many. Two comes into being based upon the existence of one. Adding one, two, three... eight, nine, ten and so forth, there arises the many. Thus all is said to mean one.
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/prajparagen2.pdf
The Buddha told Subhuti, “all Bodhisattvas, Mahàsattvas, should thus subdue their hearts with the vow, “I must cause all living beings — those born from eggs, born from wombs, born from moisture, born by transformation; those with form, those without form, those with thought, those without thought, those not totally with thought, and those not totally without thought — to enter nirvana without residue and be taken across to extinction. Yet of the immeasurable, boundless numbers of living beings thus taken across to extinction, there is actually no living being taken across to extinction. And why? Subhuti, if a Bodhisattva has a mark of self, a mark of others, a mark of living beings, or a mark of a life, he is not a Bodhisattva.
The Buddha told Subhuti how all Bodhisattvas should subdue their hearts. All can mean “many," the entire host of Bodhisattvas, or it can refer to each individual Bodhisattva; or it can refer to just one specific Bodhisattva. Many is just one, one is likewise many. Two comes into being based upon the existence of one. Adding one, two, three... eight, nine, ten and so forth, there arises the many. Thus all is said to mean one.
“Which one?
The Bodhisattva who subdues his heart. And if you
really want to know who that Bodhisattva is, you are that Bodhisattva.
The Bodhisattva who subdues his heart. And if you
really want to know who that Bodhisattva is, you are that Bodhisattva.
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