འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.23

4.23

For those beings already among the gods, I will work for their full and complete attainment of unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening. I will ensure that beings perform those actions through which they attain divine bliss, that it does not later diminish, and that once they have reached that bliss, they attain the bliss of the thus-gone ones’ peaceful bliss.’ This thought is known as a bodhisattva’s application of the mindfulness of recollecting divinities.

“Child of good family, these are a bodhisattva’s ten applications of mindfulness.”

The bodhisattva great being Nirārambha then expressed that same meaning in verse:

“Because emptiness is not observed
Anywhere other than suffering,
Do not see suffering as suffering;
Suffering should be seen as empty.

“One who wishes to see emptiness
Should see suffering correctly.
Suffering is the meaning of emptiness,
As that which is empty is uncompounded.

“Because suffering is uncreated,
Suffering has no creator.
A creator that is free of suffering
Never was and never will be.

“If suffering is totally and completely
Free of any obscuration,
And if suffering is uncreated,
What then is its origin?

“If suffering does not involve coming,
And it does not go anywhere,
How does attachment arise?
If suffering does not exist, where is it?

“If suffering has an origin,
And craving is explained as that origin,
But there is no one who craves and no craving,
How then could there be a source?

“Suffering does not involve coming.
Without coming, how could there be going?
In the absence of coming and going,
Cessation is taught to be peace.

“Phenomena are essentially peaceful;
Their root is pure, luminous, and clear.
Cessation and phenomena are equivalent;
All things relinquish the two extremes.

“Phenomena that previously arose
Will also immediately cease.
Without cessation there is no arising,
And without arising, no waning.

“The effort to conceive of that
Is the path of nonattachment and nonwaning.