The Dharani Sutra of The Buddha on Longevity, The Extinction of Offences and The Protection of Young Children: 12 of 33

“Confusion, your present deed is very good. After your lifespan is over, you will be born into the Heavenly Realm of No-form. With the merits and virtues thus accumulated, you will enjoy the heavenly blessings and bliss. Never will you be born in the form of a woman.”

At that time, the woman Confusion told The Buddha, “World Honored One! My wish is not to enjoy heavenly blessings. But I only hope to meet The World Honored One in every life, to protect the Bodhi Mind and never to retreat from the Bodhi Path. Wherever I go, I will proclaim this Dharma constantly to all sinful living beings.”

The Thus Come One Pervasive Lights said, “Are you telling me the false speech?” The woman, Confusion answered, “If I were to falsely lie to you, may I be again chased and tormented by the ghastly ghost of Impermanence …”

“… If what I have said is true with no falsity, before The Buddha may the wounds on my body be even and as smooth as before, immediately!” After she had made the vows, her body recovered immediately just as before.

The Thus Come One Pervasive Lights told Confusion, “If you are able to sincerely be mindful of The Buddha, with one-heart-undivided, then you can travel from one Buddhaland to the next Buddhaland. You will be able to see innumerable and limitless Buddha Worlds. Besides, you can also understand the unspeakable and inconceivable speeches and words of those Buddhas Worlds.”

At that time, the women Confusion in the space of a breath certified to the Dharma Patience of No-Birth, which is also known as the Bodhi Mind of Unsurpassed, Proper, Equal and Perfect Enlightenment.

“Manjushri, you should know that the past Thus Come One Pervasive Lights was my former existence; while the woman Confusion was you former existence. The forty-nine men are the present forty-nine Bodhisattvas who have just brought forth the Bodhi Resolve.”

“Manjushri, from innumerable long kalpas until now, I always proclaim for you all this Sutra and the Dharma to protect the body, in order to help all the sinful living beings to eradicate their offences after listening to the Sutra of Longevity and the Extinction of offences, even if they can only listen to as little as half a verse. How much more the effect would be as I am now again proclaiming it to you!”