འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆབ་སམས་དཔའ་སྤྱད་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 14

14

“Among all mental content
One does not find the nature of mind.
Thus, the view taught by the guide
Has no inherent nature.

“In the view taught by the Victor with pure vision
There is no viewing.
That is why those who have insight
Do not grasp at the thought, ‘I am free.’

“Those accustomed to apprehending marks
Apprehend a self and are deluded.
Such unwise people
Reject emptiness as incorrect.

“The unwise impute things
With their own minds,
Like a dream and an illusion.
Then, when things cease, they call it nirvāṇa.

“They take the body as a support
And do away with the notion of discipline.
They take mental apprehension as a support
And do away with the notion of meditative absorption.

“Likewise, they apprehend insight
And have a deluded notion of it as a seed.
The wise people of the world
Proclaim them thieves of the Dharma.

“The luminous expanse of phenomena,
Free of afflictions, is in all such phenomena.
So, will you please tell me
The point of going forth?

“All phenomena are indistinct.
They are like an echo.
The wise never conceptualize
The sphere of the noble ones.

“Their characteristic is suchness and nothing else.
They never transform into other things.
Since phenomena are unchanging,
What use is the concept of going forth?”

Then Mañjuśrī­kumāra­bhūta asked Ratnadatta, “Child, what is ‘awakening’ a verbal designation for?”

“Mañjuśrī,” Ratnadatta replied, “awakening is devoid of verbal designations.”

“How do you consider and verbally express it?” Mañjuśrī asked.

Ratnadatta replied, “Mañjuśrī, since reality is inconceivable, I consider it as such and then express it.”

Mañjuśrī asked, “How should beginner bodhisattvas be given instructions on this? How should they be taught about it?”