As the noble Questions of Dharaṇīśvara Sutra states:
O son of noble family, through his supreme tathāgata-wisdom the Tathāgata has precise knowledge of what is fact, and has precise knowledge of what is fiction. Son of noble family, what is fact, and what is fiction? O son of noble family, it is fiction, it is not the case, that doing something physically, verbally, or mentally negative will yield something desirable, beautiful, joyous, or pleasant. This is fiction. It is a fact, it is the case, that doing something physically, verbally, or mentally positive will yield that which is desirable, beautiful, joyous or pleasant. This is a fact. It is fiction, it is not the case, that stinginess will result in great wealth, that bad behaviour will lead to birth as a god or human, that malice will lead to beautiful features, the laziness will lead to realisation, that a distracted mind will be able to undo faults, that misunderstanding can overcome all that makes habitual patterns continue, that committing the acts of immediate retribution will bring about a settled mind, that remaining conceptual can lead to the attainment of harmonious acceptance,1
or that a mind steeped in regret can be pliable. This is fiction. It is fiction, it is not the case, that with a female body one can become a wheel-turning monarch, Indra, Brahma… (and so forth). It is a fact, it is the case, that generosity will result in great wealth… (and so forth, as above). This is the first tathāgata activity of the Tathāgata.2
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Chapter 1: Pramuditā
