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འཕགས་པ་ཚངས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 14

Brahmā’s Question 14

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they recognize it to be both mistaken and not mistaken. They recognize the visual consciousness as emptiness and visible forms as impermanence. They recognize the auditory consciousness as emptiness and sounds as impermanence. They recognize the olfactory consciousness as emptiness and smells as impermanence. They recognize the gustatory consciousness as emptiness and tastes as impermanence They recognize the tactile consciousness as emptiness and tangible objects as impermanence.

“Learned in wisdom, they have the wisdom that fully realizes and the wisdom that is sharp. They recognize those dharmas that are nonvirtuous and they recognize those dharmas that are virtuous. They recognize the dharmas that bring hearers their attainment. They recognize the dharmas that bring solitary realizers their attainment. They recognize the dharmas that bring bodhisattvas their attainment. They recognize the dharmas that bring buddhas their attainment.

“They recognize how the weak, middling, and strong ripening of nonvirtuous dharmas leads to rebirth as ghosts, animals, and hell beings. They recognize the weak, middling, and strong feelings of beings who are reborn in those realms. They recognize how the weak, middling, and strong ripening of virtuous dharmas leads to rebirth among gods or humans. And they recognize how the karmic fruits for those reborn there may be weak, middling, and strong.

“They recognize the dharmas that bring hearers their full attainment: actualizing the fruit of stream-entry, actualizing the fruit of being a once-returner, actualizing the fruit of being a non-returner, and actualizing the fruit of arhatship.

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