གླང་པའ་རྩལ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 24

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“Because limits have the character of space,
The limits of beings are inconceivable.
Because limits are like sensory distortions,
One does not realize wisdom.

“If one engages in discursive thought,
How will negativity ever end?
One will likewise fancy,
‘One day I will become a buddha.’

“Since buddhas are unborn,
For them there is no arising.
And yet, childish people accept phenomena
That do not arise, as arising.

“One cannot take space as a foundation,
Or abide in, or settle in space.
Space is without abiding,
Obstruction, or substance.

“Just as space is not a substantial thing,
So too should we understand awakening.
Just as we should understand awakening,
So too should we understand the world.

“Identical are the expanse of space,
Awakening, and the constitutions of beings.
For those who know these to be equal,
Awakening is easy to attain.

“For those who neither strive for awakening,
Nor direct their mind in the appropriate way,
Nor analyze phenomena,
Awakening is easy to attain.

“Awakening cannot be analyzed.
However much one analyzes,
One can never realize unsurpassable awakening
Through the achievements of mind.

“When one thinks that awakening is attained through generosity,
There is no attainment of awakening at all,
Whether there is a generous intention or any other intention.
Nonattainment is the supreme awakening!

“Those who are fixated on having a disciplined mind,
Who conceive of diligence as truth itself
And become engaged in conceptions,
Do not practice my teaching.

“I have given instructions about the practice
Without attachments to any phenomena.
That which is free from the slightest undertaking
Is the unsurpassable practice.

“Mistaken are the thoughts
Of those who think:
‘These phenomena are undefiled’
Or ‘Those phenomena are defiled.’

“But unsurpassed is the insight of those
Who regard phenomena as inconceivable,
As being similar to space,
And who are neither bound nor liberated.

“Conceiving of anyone as having discipline
Or lacking discipline
Are both explained as inferior discipline.