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Buddha - Diamond sutra - Extract: The universe is not the universe, it is called the universe
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The Diamond Sutra - Shakyamuni Buddha
‘Subhuti, what do you think – are there many atoms in a billion world universe?’
Subhuti said ‘Very many, World Honoured One’.
‘Subhuti, those atoms the Realised One says are not atoms, they are called atoms. The Realised One says that the universe is not the universe, it is called the universe