འཕགས་པ་བ་མ་རྣམ་དག་དད་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 6

6

The seventh is the sameness of minds, because mind is similar to an illusion. The eighth is the sameness of all māras, because one cannot observe a beginning of the afflictions. This is what is called abiding in sameness through the eight qualities.”

Then the Blessed One spoke again in verse:

“Because sentient beings are intrinsically without a self,
They cannot be observed even for a moment.
One who abides in sameness
Should see in this way.

“Because all phenomena are the same,
They are always intrinsically empty and void.
Differentiated only through words,
Phenomena are intrinsically without particularity.

“As one cannot observe any boundaries
Of all the buddhafields in the ten directions,
Their nature is similar to space—
All the buddhafields are always the same.

“As all thus-gone ones of the three times
Are the same in their abiding in the expanse of reality,
They are completely free through their unending wisdom—
All buddhas are such.

“The causes and conditions of sentient beings
In their nature are all the same.
By knowing their actions,
One understands them accordingly.

“All the different sentient beings
Are understood to be like an illusory display.
Not grasping at either the inner or the outer,
Their nature is always pure.

“Although various vehicles were taught,
They are the same in being noncomposite.
In full knowledge of means, the Guide
Made distinctions by teaching three vehicles.

“Even when the māra of afflictions is at hand,
The afflictions are not at all existing things.
Similarly, the domains of the māra of the gods,
The māra of the aggregates, and the māra of the Lord of Death are empty.

“Furthermore, girl, when bodhisattvas are endowed with eight qualities,³⁷ they abandon love and hate. What are these eight qualities?³⁸ Being endowed with love; being endowed with compassion; always being willing to benefit others; not being attached to worldly things;