འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4

4

A state that cannot be expressed.

“A most precious wish-fulfilling jewel
Rests on the crown of his head.
Those who perceive a precious Indranīla jewel from afar
Are very fortunate beings:
They will perfect the valiant progress.

“All who have come to see the Teacher are wise indeed.
Today in this place, a profound discourse
Will undoubtedly be proclaimed.

“O Bhagavān, please give relief
To the sentient beings who have come here.
Bringing them to full maturation
Is the heroes’ sphere of activity.”

The Bhagavān replied:

“It is just as you have said.
The place where the basis of all is heard,
And where, with wisdom, sentient beings are established,
That place is the sphere of activity of meditative concentration.

“It is the sphere of activity
Of the bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha,
Who has demonstrated the meditative concentration free of appearances
And free of proliferations.

“Whoever is attached to the two views
Will later be in a realm of delusion.
Attachment to eternalism and nihilism
Is utter delusion about here and there.

“Those who wish to free themselves
Completely from both of these views
Should meditate on that which is inexpressible,
Thereby swiftly attaining the grounds.

“Listen well, companions: For bodhisattva mahāsattvas who are beginners one must explain the six perfections with a reference point, with the notion that suchness is expressible. That is to say, they must understand the nature of the great elements to be arising and perishing. Only then should they familiarize themselves with the idea that all phenomena are in essence inexpressible, nonarising, nonceasing, not perceptible, and not in the slightest way existing.

“Thus will they definitively abandon eternalism and nihilism, and they will not be at all frightened or terrified. Once they have ceased to relate to phenomena with attachment,