འཕགས་པ་རན་པ་ཆའ་མཐའ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9

9

“Blessed One, since I do not see or apprehend ordinary beings, how could I possibly apprehend their rebirth?”

“Mañjuśrī, please expound on the Thus-Gone One’s assertion that phenomena abide.”

“Where should I begin my discourse?”

“Start with the realm of phenomena.”

“Blessed One, I do not actually see any phenomena that are not the realm of phenomena.”

“Mañjuśrī, those who are presumptuously arrogant will be frightened.”

“Blessed One, if the limit of reality were to be frightened, then, based on that, those who are presumptuously arrogant would also be frightened. Why is this? Blessed One, those who are presumptuously arrogant are not something other than the limit of reality. Whatever is the limit of those who are presumptuously arrogant, that very limit is the limit of reality. Moreover, that which is the limit of reality is also the limit of all phenomena. For that reason, they are not frightened. The statement ‘no phenomenon is truly established’ is a vajra basis.”

“Mañjuśrī,” asked the Blessed One, “Why is this called a vajra basis?”

“Blessed One, all phenomena are indestructible. It is for this reason that it is called a vajra basis. Since the thus-gone ones are inconceivable, all phenomena are inconceivable. This is a vajra basis. Why is this referred to as a vajra basis? It is because all phenomena are not mind. To say that all phenomena are awakening is a vajra basis. Why is this? Because all phenomena are inexpressible. Phenomena expressed by means of various names are not actually present in those very phenomena. Whatever is not present is empty. That which is empty does not exist. What does not exist