Angel Debates The Devil Verses
(Daimond Mountain April 2025)
1. [326]
Lead people
By the hand
To the nothing at all;
Teach them
Not to think
Of anything.
Make their concentration
Filled with busyness
Every time they meditate;
Ah, these are
The masters of meditation
Inside my system!
2. [327]
And they will attain
Results of meditation
That exist in neither
This life or the next;
And they will reach
To Buddhahood.
They can fool around
For three days,
And meditate
For a month;
And with this
Every one of them
Is liberated.
3. [328]
Thus are the mighty deeds
That I am capable of;
Whereas you can do
No holy work at all.
You are like a moron
That cannot tie their shoe;
You appear but once,
And then are gone.
4. [329]
Those who hope
To accumulate merit
Beyond any measure
Should come and serve
Here at my feet.
You must live
In envy of me,
Too weak to do a thing;
By now you must
Be entirely exhausted;
I suggest that now
You stop coming to me.
5. [331]
Ah, you arrogant one;
You don’t possess even
A single good quality,
And yet you
Grasp to this delusion
Of being a master
For everyone.
Not only do you have
No fine qualities at all;
You lack as well anything
That would bring them.
6. [332]
You are the one who champions
The idea that nothing would depend;
For you, things are immutable,
Unchanging, firm, and solid.
In your way of thinking,
Nothing could ever exist;
And so there’s no hope that
You’d ever have a single friend.
7. [333] + [334] + [335]
According to me though,
Everything can exist;
Everything there is
Is my companion;
And I am the companion
Of everything there is.
And why is that?
Because all the things there are
Exist in reliance upon each other;
And that in itself
Is my constant companion.
Everything that exists
Exists only through labels;
And that in itself
Is my constant companion.
That fact that everything
That was ever produced
Has come from causes & conditions
Is my constant companion as well.
8. [336] + [337]
Here then is a list
Of all of my companions:
The rising of the sun & moon,
The fact of east, and that of west;
The existence of the division
Between the day & night;
The fact that we have
A summer and winter,
An autumn & a spring;
The fact that rain falls down,
And ripens all the fruits.
The fact that we possess
Four seasons for our crops;
The fact that living beings
Are born, and then can die;
The fact that we experience
Illness and suffering;
And heat, and cold,
And hunger, and thirst,
And all the rest there is.
All of them come close
Upon their conditions.