འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.4
The Dharma Council 7.4
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7.4
They see that all phenomena are illusory in the same way they see the mind as illusory. They correctly see all phenomena in the same way that they correctly see that the mind is neither internal, external, nor both. They see that all phenomena are like the mind in being without form, indescribable, unimpeded, unmanifest, unknowable, without support, and without basis.
“Bodhisattvas who see these things have attained mental equanimity. Because of attaining this mental equanimity, they do not conceptualize, regress, give up, cling, or aspire. They do not cling to what they do not wish for, they do not grasp at what they do not cling to, and they do not become afflicted. Bodhisattvas free of affliction teach with all the qualities of a buddha. Blessed One, this is a discourse on the Dharma.”
The bodhisattva Gaganagañja said, “Blessed One, bodhisattvas do not speak words that harm beings. They do not speak words that hurt others. Bodhisattvas do not speak words that others will not understand. They do not speak words that do not have meaning for others or that are meaningless. They do not speak words that do not foster knowledge. They do not speak words that fail to penetrate the hearts of beings, that are not intelligible to ordinary people,²⁰¹ or that are not pleasing to the ear.²⁰² And they do not speak words that are ambiguous. Blessed One, bodhisattvas do not speak words that do not bring about an understanding of emptiness. Why? Because words that bring about an understanding of emptiness are the best of all words.
“Blessed One, it is unobstructed great compassion to see that all phenomena are empty,
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- འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan