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Mañjuśrī asks Bodhisattva Chief of the Awakened:
“The nature of mind being one, why do we see all kinds of differences? Such as: abiding in good destinies or bad destinies; having complete or incomplete faculties; having similar birth or different; beauty or ugliness; suffering, pleasure, or neither; karma not knowing mind, and mind not knowing karma; sensation not knowing consequences and consequences not knowing sensation; mind not knowing sensation, sensation not knowing mind; cause not knowing condition, condition not knowing cause; knowledge not knowing the object, the object not knowing knowledge.”
Ten poems are exchanged between Mañjuśrī and his other nine companion bodhisattvas that revolve around the basic philosophy of the sutra concerning the relationship between diversity and unity, and the prajñāpāramitā position of ‘agentless karmic action’.