འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.16

5.16

‘Mind refers to the mind that engages equally in the benefit and happiness of all beings; those who lack such a mind act adversely toward beings. How so? A field of beings is a buddhafield for bodhisattvas. It is inappropriate to act adversely in a buddhafield in which the qualities of a buddha can be found and attained. They also think that good conduct and bad conduct occur in dependence on the basis of beings.¹⁵⁷ Maintaining bad conduct leads to birth in the lower realms, while maintaining good conduct leads to birth among gods and humans.¹⁵⁸ One becomes a blessed buddha by abandoning both.’ This is a bodhisattva’s understanding of the Dharma, which quickly leads to perfect awakening.

“Some understand the Dharma as follows: ‘Everything is included within the process of dependent arising; there is no phenomenon that is beyond dependent arising. What is a phenomenon that arises dependently? A phenomenon that arises dependently does not arise, as there is no phenomenon that can be intrinsically established. Rather, that which is mere description, mere convention, mere designation, mere symbol, and that which is limited to indicating the ultimate, is not nonexistent.’ This is an understanding of the Dharma of the Teacher and is the essence of the Dharma taught by all the buddhas.

“Blessed One, some bodhisattvas think, ‘This thing called birth is a term used to name a phenomenon.’ Thinking this, they correctly cannot identify a phenomenon to which the term birth can be applied. One who thinks this way thinks, ‘All phenomena are unarisen,’ and generates acceptance. Some think, ‘This thing called death is the cessation of a given present phenomenon.