འཕགས་པ་ཀན་རྫབ་དང་དན་དམ་པའ་བདན་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.6
Teaching the Relative and Ultimate Truths 2.6
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2.6
The god said, “Mañjuśrī, how will they abide?”
Mañjuśrī said, “Divine son, ultimately they will abide in the utterly unborn, the utterly unarisen, and the utterly unreal.”
The god asked, “Mañjuśrī, in what way will they proceed?”
Mañjuśrī said, “Divine son, ultimately they will proceed within the utterly unborn, the utterly unarisen, and the utterly unreal.”
The god said, “Mañjuśrī, how will the irreversible bodhisattva great being attain awakening?”
Mañjuśrī said, “Divine son, whoever is an irreversible bodhisattva great being has no chance and no opportunity not to attain awakening.”
The god said, “Mañjuśrī, what do the bodhisattva great beings turn back from?”
Mañjuśrī said, “Divine son, ultimately, bodhisattva great beings turn back from thoughts. They turn back from the levels of all the hearers, solitary buddhas, and the extremists who rely on reference points.”
The god said, “Mañjuśrī, what does a bodhisattva great being not turn back from?”
Mañjuśrī said, “Divine son, bodhisattva great beings do not turn back from all phenomena being the same in being utterly unarisen. If you wonder why, it is because ultimately all phenomena are the same in being utterly unarisen, and the bodhisattva great beings are the same. That is why they do not turn back.”
The god asked, “When one speaks of the sameness of all phenomena in being utterly unarisen, Mañjuśrī, what phenomenon is that a designation for?”
Mañjuśrī said, “The sameness of all phenomena in being utterly unarisen designates that ultimately there is no diversity.”
The god said, “Mañjuśrī, how does the sameness of all phenomena in being utterly unarisen manifest as diversity?”
Mañjuśrī said, “Divine son,
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- འཕགས་པ་ཀུན་རྫོབ་དང་དོན་དམ་པའི་བདེན་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan