The Gospel of Buddha:Chapter 64: The Man Born Blind

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The Gospel of Buddha:Chapter 64: The Man Born Blind

There was a man born blind, and he said:
"I do not believe in the world of light and appearance.
There are no colours, bright or sombre.
There is no sun, no moon, no stars.
No one has witnessed these things." [1]

His friends remonstrated with him, but he clung to his opinion:
"What you say that you see," he objected, "are illusions.
If colours existed I should be able to touch them.
They have no substance and are not real.
Everything real has weight,
but I feel no weight where you see colours." [2]

In those days there was a physician
who was called to see the blind man.
He mixed four simples,
and when he applied them to the cataract of the blind man
the gray film melted, and his eyes acquired the faculty of sight. [3]

The Tathagata is the physician,
the cataract is the illusion of the thought "I am,"
and the four simples are the four noble truths. [4]

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