འཕགས་པ་རྣམ་པར་མ་རྟག་པར་འཇག་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 10

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nor do they consider it to be different. They do not consider the nonexistence of that cognitive representation to be existent, nor do they consider it to be nonexistent. Noble sons, those who do not conceptualize through any of these conceptual modes³⁰ do not think, ‘this is the nonconceptual field of phenomena.’

“This is the way of entering the nonconceptual realm. Noble sons, this is how bodhisattvas, great beings, become established in the nonconceptual realm.

“Noble sons, the merit from taking up this discourse on the Dharma, writing it down,³¹ and reciting it is much greater than giving away one’s body as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganga, much greater than offering jewel-filled world systems as numerous as grains of sand in the river Ganga, and much greater than the heap of merit created by commissioning images of the thus-gone ones to fill world systems as numerous as grains of sand in the river Ganga.”

Then, on that occasion, the Blessed One spoke these verses:

“With this true doctrine the Victor’s heir, intent upon the nonconceptual,
Transcends the quagmire of concepts and gradually reaches the end of thought.
A bodhisattva thereby attains a nonconceptual bliss that is peaceful and unwavering,
Supreme, under their control, and both equaled and unequaled.”³²

When the Blessed One finished his discourse, the bodhisattva, the great being Avikalpa­prabhāsa and the entire retinue together with the world of gods, humans, asuras, and gandharvas rejoiced as they praised the teachings of the Blessed One.

Colophon

This was translated and finalized by the Indian preceptors Jinamitra and