Subhuti said to the Buddha, "World Honored One, when the Buddha attained unexcelled complete perfect enlightenment, is it that there was nothing attained?"
The Buddha said, "That is so. Subhuti, there was nothing whatsoever for me to attain in unexcelled complete perfect enlightenment. This is called unexcelled complete perfect enlightenment."[Thomas Cleary]
"Do you think, Subhuti," Buddha asked, "there is any dharma by which the Tathagata has known supreme enlightenment?"
"There is no such dharma, Buddha."
"Thus, Subhuti, no atom of dharma is to be found. Therefore, enlightenment is called supreme." [Joshua Pritikin]
"Subhuti, what do you think? Did the Tathagata realize any such dharma as unexcelled, perfect enlightenment?"
The venerable Subhuti replied, "No, indeed, Bhagavan. The Tathagata did not realize any such dharma, Bhagavan, as unexcelled perfect enlightenment."
The Buddha said, "So it is, Subhuti. So it is. The slightest dharma is neither obtained nor found therein. Thus is it called `unexcelled, perfect enlightenment.'" [Red Pine]
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