གླང་པའ་རྩལ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 21

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“Venerable Śāriputra,” they answered, “from this day forth, we perfectly understand the fact that there is neither moral discipline, nor discourses on it, nor non-discipline, and that all phenomena are utterly disciplined. Therefore, from this day forth, we are proponents of the nonexistence of moral discipline.”

Having thus heard this teaching regarding these arrogant monks, the minds of three thousand six hundred other monks were liberated from defilements with no further appropriation. Then the Blessed One said to them, “Excellent! Monks, that which is devoid of the realization of any phenomenon is the attainment of truth. Thus, it is excellent, excellent.”

Then Youthful Mañjuśrī asked, “Blessed One, what phenomena are designated by that realization termed ‘realization of realization’?”

“Mañjuśrī,” replied the Blessed One, “that term ‘realization of realization’ is a designation for the acceptance that all phenomena do not arise.”

“How should those bodhisattvas, who seek to attain the acceptance that all phenomena do not arise, train, conduct themselves, and engage in practice?” asked Mañjuśrī.

At that time the Blessed One uttered the following verses in order to explain to Youthful Mañjuśrī the training in accepting that all phenomena do not arise:

“Those who wish to obtain the wisdom of the Buddha,
The unsurpassed omniscience,
Should neither take up
Nor cast away any phenomenon.

“One does not discover any phenomena at all
That come into being.
Yet childish people accept these phenomena as arising,
Although they are devoid of arising.

“When beings are taught that phenomena
Are to be understood and rejected,
Childish people who experience arising
Will not have faith in non-arising.

“Having abandoned the noble path to awakening
And the teachings pertaining to the path,
Childish people cling to duality
And do not understand nonduality.

“In myriad illusions,
Childish people perceive distinctions