གླང་པའ་རྩལ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 22

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Where there are none,
For all these illusions are of a single character.

“Those who are called ‘ordinary beings’
And the skillful buddhas of the world systems
Are not two and are not separable into two.
They are the same in their illusory character.

“Some childish people say,
‘One day our attachment will end,
And our hatred and ignorance will be pacified;
One day there will be no afflictions.’

“For those who have taught emptiness
In order to annihilate the attachment and hatred
That conceive of the nonexistent as existent,
Their exhaustion is nirvāṇa.

“Nirvāṇa is perfectly taught
As being without cessation or arising.
Yet far from my teaching are those
Who strive for something unceasing or unarisen.

“Those who delight in conceptions
Of generosity, moral conduct, and awakening
Remain within the domain of phenomenal appearances,
And therefore do not realize my awakening.

“Childish people deluded about nonexistence
Do not understand that phenomena are hollow,
And thus they establish distinctions
Regarding phenomena that are of a single character.

“For those who understand these phenomena,
Devoid of phenomenal appearance by nature,
Just as a hand consists of five fingers,
It will not be difficult to attain awakening.

“Awakening is far from no one.
Awakening is close to no one.
But far from awakening are those
Immersed in discursive and dichotomous thought.

“Since childish people denigrate each other
When they get involved with one another,
They lack self-discipline.
Those who lack self-discipline are not tamed.

“Phenomena are like dreams
And all conditioned things are unreal.
Considering arising as an illusion,
The wise do not grasp them as something essential.

“In truth, they have no discipline,
And yet they truly have no lack of discipline.
Since phenomena are dependently arisen,
They do not have a self.

“Throughout a million eons,
The Guide tirelessly practiced generosity
And maintained supreme and stainless discipline.
Yet he never proclaimed a self.

“It is taught that awakening has been attained
When one is free from any conception about oneself,
And when all conceptions of generosity,
As well as discursive thought, have been abandoned.

“It is taught that through generosity one will become resourceful,