འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 1.3

1.3

“You possess the knowledge of the single mode,
You eliminate the doubts of tens of thousands of gods and humans,
You have attained goodness, you have crossed the flood,
And you are endowed with the swift knowledge that leads to happiness.

“Your awakened conduct and buddha qualities are manifest,
And you have conquered the entirety of the suffering of those beings with agitated minds
Who are blind, engulfed in darkness,
And carried away by the river of desire.

“Lord of humankind, you manifest compassion for those who have not studied
And for those who are bereft of virtue and separated from skilled teachers.
Please let us hear about the Dharma of sameness;
Explain how to pass beyond birth and sever saṃsāra!

“Great sage, you have crossed the river of birth; please speak with compassion!
Due to their distorted minds, beings will wander for many lifetimes
On those paths that are webs of craving and contain the roots of afflictions;
Please sever them all!

“Victor, please tell us about the defects of craving,
So that our suffering is pacified along with our six senses and our minds.
Great sage, in order for beings to be free from craving and its causes
And from the abundance of their torments,

“Please expound to us, out of your affection,
The Dharma that dries up the river of craving,
Swiftly leads to happiness and immortality,
And eliminates craving!”

The Blessed One replied to the mahābrahmā Glorious Blazing Lotus:

“Those who have practiced the perfections in the past
And will practice them in the future
Should never delight
In the teachings of the hearers.

“There is no other downfall besides that,
To corrupt the teaching of the buddhas.
Yet the mind engages repeatedly,
Again and again, in such duality.

“By abandoning the three types of teachings—
Those associated with aggression,
The teaching of the hearers, and conditioned awakening²¹—
One will perfect the qualities of the buddhas.

“Those beings, born in one of the four ways,
Who have arrived in this buddha realm
Are all free from indulging in desire,
And all of them have attained insight into repulsiveness.

“The wise beings present here