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the Maitreya chapter

(9) to Maitreya, chapter 72;(5) to Maitreya, the first part of chapter 24;

“Maitreya, [F.351.b] the nirvāṇa of the bodhisattvas is profound, very profound,” replied the Blessed One to the bodhisattva Maitreya. The Blessed One replied to the bodhisattva Maitreya, “Maitreya, do you think that with respect to imagined physical forms, that insubstantiality is material or else is it not material?”The Blessed One replied to the bodhisattva Maitreya, “Maitreya, physical forms exist in terms of mundane symbols and conventional expressions, but not in ultimate reality. Maitreya, feelings, perceptions, formative predispositions, and consciousness, and [all the aforementioned phenomena], up to and including the qualities of the buddhas, exist in terms of mundane symbols and conventional expressions, but not in ultimate reality.” The Blessed One replied to the bodhisattva Maitreya, “Maitreya, do you think that physical forms are merely names, notions, symbols, imputations, and conventional expressions, or else do they arise and perish, or are they afflicted and purified?”“Maitreya, do you think that those physical forms that are real and distinguished as nonself of physical forms are material?”

“I have not realized those phenomena, just as I have explained them,” replied Maitreya.