VimalakurtiYou associate with living beings by frequenting their migrations. Yet your mind is liberated from all migrations. Just as the lotus, born of mud, is not tainted thereby, So the lotus of the Buddha preserves the realization of voidness.
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Living beings are born from living beings' migrations. The mind of living beings is born from worldly migrations. So the mind of the Buddha is liberated from all worldly migrations. This verse has two parts.
The first part talks about how our mind is born from worldly migrations; the second part talks about how the mind of the Buddha, who stayed in one place, was not tainted by worldly migrations. The first part says that living beings are born out of their own migrations. The second part says that the mind of the Buddha was liberated from his worldly travels.
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