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འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་མ་དྲས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 42

The Questions of the Nāga King Anavatapta 42

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“Lord of nāgas, that which is known as dependent origination is not originated, and that which is not originated is not born. The unborn is the Dharma. The Dharma is free of attachment. To be free of attachment is to be thus-gone. Yet, that which is known as dependent origination arises from conditions; this is the inexpressible true nature. Since it is the true nature of perfect awakening, it is thus-gone. Lord of nāgas, that which is known as dependent origination consists in seeing phenomena with the eye of insight, and that experience of phenomena is thus-gone. Lord of nāgas, bodhisattvas who are devoted to the true nature are known as the heedful.

“Lord of nāgas, heedful bodhisattvas do not stray into affliction. They have faith in the noble ones; they do not forsake those who are not noble; they protect the lineage of the noble ones; they protect the sacred Dharma; they do not forget their extensive learning; they do not discard the aggregate of discipline; they delight in the aggregate of absorption; they do not waver from the aggregate of insight; they are firmly established in the aggregate of liberation; and they are settled in the aggregate of the of liberating wisdom vision.²⁸

“Lord of nāgas, heedful bodhisattvas are devoted to the immeasurable dharmas of the Buddha. They seek the immeasurable wisdom of a buddha, they engage in the immeasurable eloquence of a buddha, they enter the immeasurable correct understandings of a buddha, they emulate the immeasurable emanations of a buddha, they follow the immeasurable thoughts of beings, they travel to countless buddha fields, they see countless thus-gone ones, they hear countless teachings,

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