འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་འབྱང་བ་མད་པར་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7

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then listened as instructed as the Blessed One spoke the following verses:

“Those who awaken to supreme awakening
Without being disturbed by attachment or aversion
Become victorious when they understand
It is because of desire that all phenomena have the nature of desire.

“Do not objectify attachment,
And likewise do not objectify aversion or stupidity.
Those who understand that all phenomena are like space
Will become victorious.

“View and no view are of a single principle.
Same and not same are likewise the same.
There is no Buddha, no Dharma, and no Saṅgha.
Whoever understands this is wise.

“Just as someone who is dreaming
Dreams of awakening and a buddha taming beings,
But there is no true awakening and there are no beings,
Likewise, the entire Dharma is in fact like that.

“Those who have set out for awakening found nothing at all.
They found nothing and will never find anything.
Knowledge and awareness are of a single principle.
Knowing this, they will be victorious.

“The nature of beings is said to be awakening itself.
The nature of awakening is all beings.
Beings and awakening—these are not two different things.
Knowing this, they become supreme beings.

“When a trained magician
Manifests a multitude of visual illusions,
The illusions appear but are nothing whatsoever,
And yet they delight deluded beings.

“Attachment and aversion are always the same.
Stupidity and illusion also are always the same.
Childish beings with averse, deluded minds
Are cast into the lower realms by their stupidity.

“Reality is like an illusion—
There is no attachment or aversion, and no stupidity whatsoever.
Yet childish beings form concepts
And suffer in the fire of afflictive emotions.

“The knowledge that phenomena are unborn
Entails there are no afflicted beings
Or anyone who has ever awakened,
Yet people form concepts and say, ‘We will awaken.’

“Those who see there are no buddhas, no buddha qualities,