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འཕགས་པ་ཀན་རྫབ་དང་དན་དམ་པའ་བདན་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.9

Teaching the Relative and Ultimate Truths 1.9

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1.9

“Whatever is the same as suchness, the sphere of reality, and the utterly unborn on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as the dharmas of ordinary beings.

“Whatever is the same as suchness, the sphere of reality, and the utterly unborn on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as the dharmas of those who are training.

“Whatever is the same as suchness, the sphere of reality, and the utterly unborn on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as the dharmas of those who are no longer training.

“Whatever is the same as suchness, the sphere of reality, and the utterly unborn on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as the dharmas of the completely perfect Buddha.

“Whatever is the same as the dharmas of the completely perfect Buddha on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as suchness, the sphere of reality, and the utterly unborn.

“Whatever is the same as the dharmas of the completely perfect Buddha on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as nirvāṇa.

“Whatever is the same as nirvāṇa on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as saṃsāra.

“Whatever is the same as saṃsāra on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as affliction.

“Whatever is the same as affliction on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as purification.

“Whatever is the same as purification on the ultimate level is also ultimately the same as all phenomena.

“A monk who genuinely engages in the equality of all phenomena on the ultimate level in this way, divine son, is called one with authentic engagement on the ultimate level. However, it is not like the way it is expressed.”

The god said, “Mañjuśrī, what is the sameness by which everything up to purification is said to be ultimately the same, and also to be ultimately the same as all phenomena?”

Mañjuśrī said, “Ultimately, all phenomena are the same in that they are unarisen.

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