"I either preach my own body or preach the body of another or show my own body or show the body of another or show my own matter or show the matter of another." -- Shakyamuni Buddha of the Juryo Chapter of the Lotus Sutra

I either preach my own body

or preach the body of another or show my own body

or show the body of another or show my own matter

or show the matter of another. The various words I preach

are all true and not empty. What is the reason?

The Tathagata knows and sees the appearance

of the Three Worlds in accordance with reality:

there is no Birth-and-Death,

whether backsliding or emerging;

likewise there is neither existence in the world

nor extinction; they are not real; they are not void,

they are not thus; they are not different.

It is not as the Three Worlds

see the Three Worlds. In such a matter as this

the Tathagata sees clearly

and is without error. Because the various beings

have distinctions of various types of natures

and various types of recollections, I, desiring

to cause various good karmic roots to be produced

by means of considerable causalities,

parables, and words, preach various kinds of dharmas:

The work of the Buddha which I perform

I have never once abandoned even for a brief time.

Thus the time since I attained buddhahood

is very great, long and distant. My life is immeasurable

asemkheyas of kalpas

and I abide forever and am not extinguished.