འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་མ་དྲས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 64
The Questions of the Nāga King Anavatapta 64
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64
Coming, and going of form.
“I have taught that,
For wise bodhisattvas,
The arising of a buddha is characterized
By the birthlessness of the five aggregates.
“As it is settled in groundlessness,
I have taught that the arising of a buddha
Is characterized by the birthlessness
Of the elements, sense sources, and aggregates.
“When awareness arises,
Saṃsāra declines.
By teaching this circumstance,
Buddhahood is uncovered.
“Those who fixate on concepts
Of nonarising, arising, and noncessation
And who entertain the notion of entities
Are unable to serve me.
“It is not taught that a buddha arises
Through the arising of mindfulness.
The absence of mindfulness and mental engagement
Is taught to be buddhahood.
“The same applies
To all the factors of awakening.
The absence of their arising is asserted to be
The arising of a buddha.
“This is how I arose as a buddha.
Those who have understood that
Will have faith in my teachings
And will be free from attachment.
“Friends, how does a bodhisattva turn the wheel of Dharma? Friends, turning of the wheel of Dharma consists in comprehending, enjoying, being devoted to, having faith in, retaining, maintaining, adopting, unfailingly recollecting, and properly understanding a teaching such as this, as well as explaining it, teaching it, and thoroughly teaching it to others with unfailing great compassion and the mind of omniscience, in obtaining it and not forgetting it even in times of distress, and in regularly, without being attached to veneration, requesting it, remembering it, adhering to it, and accepting it.
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- འཕགས་པ་ཀླུའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་མ་དྲོས་པས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan