འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.26
The Dharma Council 5.26
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5.26
“Blessed One, my statement—‘This is what I have understood, and this is what I have realized’—is a transformation of the sense bases. But, Blessed One, one should not think ‘this is our transformation’ about the sense bases. A person who understands this will not argue with anyone, and a person who does not argue is a person who follows a mendicant’s Dharma.¹⁶⁷ A person who has taken up a mendicant’s Dharma neither does nor does not actively enter it from somewhere. They neither actively join nor do not join. They do not actively depart, gather together, diminish, or grow. They see everything as a way of the Dharma, and they see everything as a way of knowledge. They see the expanse of phenomena, and thus see everything as a source. But they correctly do not see anything that is a source. Otherwise, that which is merely a name, label, and convention would not be nonexistent. There is no name to be a name, no label to be a label, and no convention to be a convention. By seeing phenomena, the Buddha is seen. By seeing the Buddha, all beings are seen. By seeing all beings, causes and conditions are seen. By seeing causes and conditions, emptiness is seen. The seeing of emptiness is not seeing. Blessed One, to not see any phenomenon is to see correctly.¹⁶⁸ ¹⁶⁹ Blessed One, those who see in this way neither please nor displease the buddhas. They neither please nor displease the Dharma. They neither please nor displease the saṅgha.
“Blessed One, if bodhisattvas with this kind of patience do not even dispute with māras, they certainly will not dispute with those who are aligned with the Dharma.
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- འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan