"Subhūti, if a bodhisattva filled worlds as many as the grains of sand in the Ganges river, and another bodhisattva perfected his forbearance based on the awareness of the selflessness of all phenomena, the merit gained by this bodhisattva would exceed that of the former. Subhūti, this is because the bodhisattvas do not experience merit."
Subhūti said to the Buddha: "World Honored One, how is it that the bodhisattva does not experience merit?"
"Subhūti, the merit generated by the bodhisattvas is not to be appropriated by them. Therefore I say that they do not experience merit."
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