འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་མ་དྲས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 59

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beyond coming and going. It is confidence that all phenomena are free from body, speech, and mind and free from attachment. It is confidence that all phenomena are without a self, a being, a life force, a person, and attachment, and that all phenomena abide in thusness. It is confidence that all countless phenomena are unreal and insubstantial, like an empty fist that tricks a child. It is confidence that all phenomena are essenceless through the extent of the past, are essenceless through the extent of the future, and do not abide through the limit of reality. It is confidence that all phenomena are like the expanse of the sky, are subsumed in the realm of phenomena, transcend the three times, and are undefiled. It is confidence that all phenomena are pure and luminous by nature, since they are free from ignorance, free from the views that cling to sense pleasures, and devoid of afflictions. It is confidence that no phenomena derive from temporary afflictions, that, since the activity of all mental constructs has ceased, they are neutral, that they are free of desire and anger, and that they are beyond adoption. It is confidence that all phenomena are beyond mental imputation and beyond rejection. It is trust that no phenomena abide as entities or as nonentities, and that it is impossible for them to be nothing whatsoever. It is confidence that all phenomena are like space—devoid of all entities and groundless. It is confidence that all phenomena are hollow like plantain trees—beyond raising up or putting down. It is confidence that, since all phenomena are uncompounded, they are equal to nirvāṇa