འཕགས་པ་ག་ཡ་མགའ་ར་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2

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By what means did I realize it? Who realized it? These things ought to be examined.

“Was it realized by the body? Or was it realized by the mind?

“With respect to its being realized by the body, the body is inert matter, motionless—like grass, a tree, a wall, a clod of earth, and a visual aberration—mindless, derived from the four elements, arisen from the impurities of one’s parents, impermanent, and in need of constant anointing, washing, and massage; it has the properties of perishing, breaking apart, and being destroyed.

“The mind is like an illusion, dependently originated, without a basis, without characteristics, without substance, and in an open state.

“Awakening is merely a name, merely a convention, without language, not analyzable, not established, without movement, without engagement, without cognition, and not to be designated. It has transcended coming and going, transcended designation, and transcended the three realms. It is unseen, unheard, undifferentiated, without foundation, unobservable, without movement, without elaboration, without engagement, and not examinable. It is immeasurable, indemonstrable, without words, without syllables, without verbal expression.¹⁶

“Thus, who will attain full awakening? By what means will one attain full awakening? What is it to be fully awakened? All these things are mere names, merely designated, mere signs, mere conventions, conceptualized and imagined. They are not arisen, without arising, not a substance, without substance, without appropriation, indemonstrable, and without attachment.

“In that regard,