འཕགས་པ་གང་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.11

1.11

and if that person says ‘the Dharma is nonexistent,’ the non-Dharma would not exist either. Therefore, this realization is free from conceptual constructs. This absence of conceptual constructs is called nirvāṇa. Once you have investigated in that way, do you find that it is something very far away, or instead something very close?”

“It is neither far nor close,” answered Pūrṇa. “Why is it so? Blessed One, because it has no sides, it does not abide anywhere, and it has no inside or outside.”

“Pūrṇa,” said the Blessed One, “that is how you should regard phenomena.”

“Blessed One,” asked Pūrṇa, “what kind of phenomenon should I regard in that way?”

“Pūrṇa, it is said that the thus-gone ones do not apprehend, create, or manifest those phenomena that immature ordinary beings so strongly cling to. So not conceptualizing⁹ such phenomena is called assessing them. Pūrṇa, since such assessments of phenomena are free from differentiation, I will now explain to you the sublime, supreme Dharma of disengagement, which subsumes the path to buddhahood.

“Pūrṇa, in the future, if those who cling to worldly gains hear this discourse, they will not be motivated to listen to its teachings or to adopt it. Pūrṇa, when I say, ‘I am awakened,’ you understand these words only partially, from the mere perspective of words and concepts, but you are unable to grasp their actual meaning. This meaning is extremely profound; it cannot be expressed by words. Instead, it is known only by the wise ones themselves.” At that moment, the Blessed One uttered these verses:

“Those who do not understand this point
Will be troubled about the Buddha and the Dharma.
Those who know this point
Will be instructed by the buddhas.

“Those who conceive of the Buddha as the teacher
Pursue nirvāṇa.
Avoiding quarrels and fights,