འཕགས་པ་བླ་གྲས་མ་ཟད་པས་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.9

1.9

Then Venerable Śāradvatīputra said to the bodhisatva Akṣayamati, “Son of good family, where do you come from? What is the name of the tathāgata in your place? What is the name of your world sphere, and how far is that world sphere from here?”

Akṣayamati said, “Do the concepts of coming and going still occur to the elder Śāradvatīputra?”

Śāradvatīputra said, “Son of good family, I know concepts thoroughly.”

Akṣayamati said, “Śāradvatīputra, one who knows concepts thoroughly does not indulge in dualistic thoughts, so why do you think, ‘Who are you, where do you come from?’ ‘Coming,’ Venerable Śāradvatīputra, is a word for uniting, while ‘going’ is a word for separation. Where there is no word for uniting and no word for separation, there is no coming or going. The absence of coming and going is the way of the saints.

“ ‘Coming,’ Venerable Śāradvatīputra, has the character of the essential nature of action, while ‘going’ has the essential nature of the end of action. Where there is no essential character of action and no essential character of the end of action, there is no coming or going. The absence of coming and going is the way of the saints.

“ ‘Coming,’ Venerable Śāradvatīputra, is the essential character of wishing, while ‘going’ is the essential character of the end of wishing. Where there is no essential character of wishing and no essential character of the end of wishing, there is no coming or going. The absence of coming and going is the way of the saints.

“ ‘Coming,’ Venerable Śāradvatīputra, is the essential character of arising, while ‘going’ is the essential character of cessation. Where there is no essential character of arising and no essential character of cessation,