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Taking the Holy White Lotus Sutra as a standard, just as the complete Nirvana aspect of the Hearers was spoken to the great Bodhisattvas such as the Holy Shariputra, it should be known that this is a Nirvana with intention, because the work of benefiting beings is cut off until that time. For that very reason, it is said that this is the complete Nirvana here because the activities of all sentient beings are cut off. The second is also not, because their realization is more excellent than those. Thus, whatever knowledge and abandonment there is from entering the practice stage to the Pratyekabuddha is the Bodhisattva's patience, and it will be explained in this way. Therefore, with the irreversible Dharma, the Bodhisattva who first generated the mind from the mind arising from expression, what is clearly manifested here is the Bodhisattva who first generated the mind. If so, Shariputra, what do you think? Starting from "For whose benefit does the wisdom fruit of a Bodhisattva's one-day meditation abide?" until "All sentient beings completely pass into Nirvana, the six Paramitas are completely perfected, and the actions, efforts, and realizations gathered by obtaining the Dharmakaya have all been truly obtained," these will not change here, because these are not the fruits of one-day meditation wisdom, but the fruits of wisdom of countless eons. Here, also, with the analogy of the burning wick, the initial generation of the mind and the subsequent fruit are the path. The key to practice has been explained. What is the key to the truth? What is the key to the Four Noble Truths? Among them, with regard to the truth of suffering, Shariputra, for this Bodhisattva Mahasattva, if he diligently practices the emptiness of form, it is called diligence, and so on, whatever is said is it. With regard to the truth of origin, if one does not truly see that form is the nature of arising or the nature of ceasing, that form is the nature of all afflictions or