འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.17

7.17

Truth is knowing suffering.”

Nirārambha then asked, “If suffering is compounded, false, deceptive, and unreal, then how would knowing it be truly appropriate?

“Indeed, child of good family,” replied Subhūti.

The bodhisattva Nirārambha then asked, “Honorable Subhūti, in what sense is your knowing of suffering a truth of the noble ones?”

“Child of good family,” replied Subhūti, “if cessation is uncompounded, how is it not the truth of the noble ones?”

The bodhisattva Nirārambha then asked, “Honorable Subhūti, is cessation itself the truth of cessation, or the ceasing of some other phenomenon? Because of the cessation of what is it the truth of cessation?”

“Child of good family,” replied Subhūti, “it is called ‘the truth of cessation’ because of the cessation of suffering.”

The bodhisattva Nirārambha then asked, “Did the elder Subhūti not say that suffering is a compounded, false, and deceptive phenomenon?”

“Indeed, child of good family,” replied Subhūti.

The bodhisattva Nirārambha then asked, “Honorable Subhūti, if there is no cessation for a phenomenon that is false and incorrect, in what sense does your suffering cease?”

Once that had been said, the venerable Subhūti said to the bodhisattva great being Nirārambha, “Child of good family, I rejoice in your confident eloquence. May all beings also attain your confident eloquence. Child of good family, what is the truth for bodhisattvas? What truth do they clearly comprehend?”

“Honorable Subhūti,” replied the bodhisattva Nirārambha, “there is no contradiction between any phenomena and the mode of the truth. Therefore, the clear comprehension of all phenomena is the clear comprehension of the truth.