འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.23

5.23

Blessed One, why is the Dharma not something that is given and not something that is not given? Because it has no owner, one succeeds in it in the same way as they seek it out. Blessed One, one does not enter the Dharma as an object dear to the blessed buddhas, nor as something that is not dear to ordinary childish beings. Blessed One, the Dharma is revealed by those who are free of conceptual elaboration. It is not near to the buddhas and far from ordinary childish beings. The Dharma is understood in the same way it is sought out. Blessed One, I wonder if this is a discourse on the Dharma? Blessed One, do you consider my discourse on the Dharma to be in accord with those already given?”

The Blessed One said, “Kātyāyana, your Dharma discourse is in accord.”

The venerable Mahākāśyapa next addressed the Blessed One: “Blessed One, a Dharma discourse made by someone who seeks isolation is not a Dharma discourse. Blessed One, all phenomena are nondual, they remain isolated. Because they are free of mind, thought, and the mind consciousness, one phenomenon cannot be sought via another. Being free of searching, one phenomenon cannot be sought via another. Being free of doing, one phenomenon cannot be coordinated with another.

“Furthermore, Blessed One, the term used here, isolation, is a way of referring to nonduality. There are no phenomena of any kind apart from the nondual. Blessed One, all phenomena are nondual, and they have the nature of emptiness. They have the nature of being signless, wishless, unconditioned, unborn, and unarisen.