@NoaidiX where in the sutras is the Buddha compared metaphorically to a mirror?
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For instance, the Avataṃsaka Sūtra understands the mirror in multiple contexts, one of them being the insubstantiality of all phenomena, including the practices one undertakes on the path, and another the capacity to reflect and illuminate all phenomena.
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Continued: The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra and Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra explicitly liken the activity of consciousness to a mirror reflecting images, while the Śūraṅgama Sūtra uses the mirror metaphor to depict the fundamentally pure mind free of discrimination.
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cool. I recalled that the Buddha himself was compared to a mirror -- that if you talk to him you get what is actually going on with you reflected back at you. No?
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That sounds like a Pure Land school interpretation, an experience evoked by 念佛, calling to mind the Buddha through recitation of the Buddha's name. The Chan school also likens the Buddha to a mirror, reflecting one's own nature, but these aren't directly sūtra-based metaphors.
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