"Subhūti, what do you say? Can one discern the Tathāgata by means of his bodily characteristics?"
"No, World Honored One. One cannot see the Tathāgata by means of bodily characteristics. Why not? The bodily characteristics taught by the Tathāgata are actually not bodily characteristics." The Buddha said to Subhūti: "All things that have characteristics are false and ephemeral. If you see all characteristics to be non-characteristics, then you see the Tathāgata."
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