འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་འབྱང་བ་མད་པར་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3

3

How are the two similar to space?

“When they are neither numerable nor numberless,
How can phenomena be similar to peace?⁵
Faultless one, how is there no awakening in them,
And no omniscience either?

“The nature of what has been, is, and will be done,
As well as apprehension and the apprehended, has never existed.
Beings have also never existed.
How is there no Dharma practice in that?⁶

“There is no discipline or patience,
Nor is there ever any distorted discipline.
There is no concentration or insight,
So how could there ever be knowledge or ignorance?

“How are phenomena stainless and pure,
Nothing whatsoever, like space?
How is it that the nature of mind is never observed,
And that phenomena are devoid of mind?

“How is there no knowledge,
No meditation, and nothing realized?
There is nothing to be abandoned anywhere,
So how are beings like the element of space?

“Where reality is of a single principle,
There is no nature at all.
Protector, please explain this principle of phenomena
In which there is no arising at all.

“In it there is no learning, no worthy ones—
How could there be solitary buddhas?⁷
Where there are no phenomena seeking awakening,
How could there be coming and going?

“Where there is no dwelling or support,
And no coming or going,
Phenomena are free of coming and going,
So how do they remain stable and unmoving like mountains?

“How is there no perception or form?
How could the nature of form be awakening?
How are form and awakening not two?
Stainless and eminent Victor, speak about these things.

“Where there is no Buddha,
And where there is no Dharma or Saṅgha,
How could the supreme Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha
Be of a single principle?

“Where there is no emptiness or characteristics,
There is no gathering or separation.