འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.19

5.19

your Dharma discourse is in accord. Śāriputra, your explanation demonstrates an understanding of the Dharma teachings of the thus-gone ones of the past, future, and present.”

The venerable Mahāmaudgalyāyana next addressed the Blessed One: “Blessed One, bodhisattvas who think, ‘I should discourse on the Dharma,’ are incapable of discoursing on the Dharma. Why? Because they believe in a self and think, ‘I teach, they listen.’ Those lacking the perception of a self do not teach the Dharma after imputing a self, after imputing an other, or after imputing both. They do not teach after forming latent impressions. Why? Blessed One, it is because all imputations are imputations based on nothing. Blessed One, an imputed phenomenon does not substantially exist. To elaborate, the Dharma is an imputation made by bodhisattva great beings who understand imputations. How so? Blessed One, the imputations of a bodhisattva who understands imputations are similar to describing a magical illusion. Blessed One, an imputation is called an imputation, so what is meant by ‘imputation,’ Blessed One? It is an imputation to not reject emptiness and dependent arising; it is to be in accord with the unarisen and unceasing; it is the transcendence of ideas, concepts, and paradigms; it is the disruption of clinging to ‘I’ and ‘mine’; it is the clearing away of all adopted views. That is the imputation of bodhisattva great beings who understand imputation.