འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་མ་དྲས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 63

63

They do not get involved with phenomena,
Nor do they do give themselves up to physical or mental idleness.

“They clear away the view of a self or a being,
And they have trust in the Dharma of nonattachment.
The faithful abide in thusness,
And they understand how to follow the path.

“Confident that the limit of reality is without end
And that all phenomena
Are the same as the extent of space,
They settle evenly in the expanse of wisdom.

“Since all phenomena are undefiled
And transcend the three times,
The faithful do not cling
To existence, karma, ignorance, or views.

“Since they know that all phenomena are luminous,
Free from affliction, and naturally pure,
Their minds are not susceptible
To sudden affliction.

“They disregard all phenomena
And are unmoved by them.
They are equanimous and imperturbable,
And they do not cling to faults.

“They have confidence that all phenomena are unreal—
Beyond taking and letting go,
Beyond grasping and liberation—
Like an empty fist that tricks a child.

“Hollow, unsupported,
And without a core like a plantain tree,
Inherently deceptive,
Nonabiding, and insubstantial,

“All phenomena are nothing whatsoever.
They know that in reality they do not exist in the slightest.
All phenomena, being equal to and similar to space,
Are uncompounded.

“They have faith that all phenomena
Are like nirvāṇa and naturally at peace.
They faithfully have confidence in that,
Just as with a stone tossed into the sky.³⁶

“Buddhas will arise
For bodhisattvas
Who have such faith—
So, too, for those with reverence.

“The arising of form
Is not taught to be the arising of the buddhas,
Nor its cessation or rising up,
Its coming or going.

“The arising of a buddha is asserted to be
The absence of the arising,
Cessation, abiding,