འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.5

4.5

There is no fundamental root¹⁰⁹ or governing power. There is no “mine” and no appropriation. Notions of “collection,” “body,” “enjoyment,” “basis,”¹¹⁰ “corpse,” and “sense base” are conventional designations based on superficial conventions. This body is without essence; it comes from the father’s semen and the mother’s blood. It is innately unclean, putrid, and foul-smelling. It is confounded by the thieves of desire, anger, dullness, fear, and sloth. It is continuously beset by decay, collapse, disintegration, decomposition, and destruction, and it is host to a hundred thousand different diseases.’¹¹¹

“Furthermore, child of good family, bodhisattvas think about what the body is like and apply mindfulness to the body as follows:¹¹² ‘This body is just a collection composed of the feet, toes, calves, thighs, sacrum,¹¹³ abdomen, navel, spine, heart, sides, ribs, palms,¹¹⁴ forearms, shoulders, neck, cheeks, forehead, and skull. It has been gathered through the impetus of karma’s arising and persists as the hundred thousand different afflictive emotions, secondary afflictive emotions, notions, and concepts. It is a collection of many substances: head hair, body hair, nails, teeth, bone, skin, muscle, marrow, tendons, omentum, fat, serum, liver, urine, feces, stomach, intestines,¹¹⁵ blood, saliva, bile, pus, mucus, skull, and brain.’

“Bodhisattvas analytically think, ‘This body is equal to space,’ and apply mindfulness to the body that is space-like. They see everything as being space-like.