འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.24

4.24

The path is taught to be like a boat,
A boat that should be entirely given up.

“What joy can be found in a phenomenon
That is gathered, only to be given up?
The yogi is called free
Who keeps to the high ground of giving up the path.

“Thus, by meditating on phenomena
Using the wisdom of the path,
The qualities of liberation are revealed.
This is wholly indisputable.

“What we call the body
Is a mass of head hair, body hair,
Nails, teeth, flesh, bone, blood,
Fat, omentum, muscle, excrement,

“Bile, phlegm, brain,
Liver, tendons, intestines, and urine.
The yogi sees these body parts
As mere nonexistent imaginings.

“In it there is no actor,
No one who senses or sees.
What we call the ‘body’
Is inherently like an empty town.

“Sensation is described as ‘experience,’
But who experiences it?
There is no one to sense it
Who is separate from the sensation.

“This is how the astute¹³⁶
Apply mindfulness to sensation.
It is peaceful, pure, and luminous,
Just as awakening is.¹³⁷

“Mind is not seen in¹³⁸ the body,
Nor likewise the mind in the mind.
Knowing this, there is no agitation;
Even the one who liberates knows no joy.

“One sees merely the mind.
Though all concepts are entirely abandoned,
The one in the domain of the unobscured
Does not forsake the practice.

“Phenomena are not self-arisen,
They are not effected by anything,
They are incalculable and without words,
And they have the quality of being like space.

“Upon assimilating the realization of this teaching,
A yogic practitioner who knows the Dharma
And remains in equipoise
Neither engages nor avoids.

“Those who are mindful of the Dharma in this way,
Who never stray from the Dharma,
Are stable in the perfections
And cultivate generosity toward the Buddha’s teaching.

“The Buddha is wise in all things,
Untainted by any obscuration;
He perfectly performs every wholesome deed,
And wishes benefit for all beings.

“Those of good lineage, appearance, qualities, and deeds,
Who are wise about perfect awakening,