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Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 5: Manjusri’s Call on Vimalakirti (24)
Vimalakirti replied : “ A Bodhisattva who is sick should dwell upon such thoughts as these : this sickness of mine has been caused by illusions, errors and passions in my past existences, and it has no real substance. Who is the sufferer in sickness? [No man]. And why? Because the four elements are combined together, there is the combination provisionally called the body. There is no ruler of the four elements besides themselves; nor is there any self in the body. Again, this, what we call sickness comes from the attaching oneself to Self. Therefore let him not be attached to Self.
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (10)
By pondering in such wise upon the excellences of solitude a man stills vain imaginations and strengthens his Thought of Enlightenment. First he will...