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འཕགས་པ་ག་ཆའ་བཀད་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.7

The Teaching of the Armor Array 2.7

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2.7

“It is not associated with the inner;
It is not associated with the outer.
It is not associated or combined with
Either inner or outer.

“It is not associated with the elements,
Nor with the sense sources.
It also is not combined with
The elements or the sense sources.

“It is not associated with the earth element,
Nor with the water element.
It is not associated or combined with
The elements of fire, wind, space, or consciousness.

“It is not associated with the desire realm,
Nor with the form realm.
It is not associated or combined with
The formless realm either.

“It apprehends nothing,
And is not associated or combined with
Conditioned phenomena
Or unconditioned phenomena.

“This inconceivable armor they don
Has no abiding and no combining, and
No bondage and no liberation;
And there is nothing with which it is not associated.

“Because the scope of this armor is boundless,
It is not associated or combined with
The level of the hearers
Or the level of the solitary buddhas.

“It entirely does not associate with
And entirely does not combine with
Even the level of buddhahood,
Or any other phenomenon.

“No type of verbal expression
Could capture it whatsoever.
This boundless armor
Has no essence and is difficult to conceive of.

“It is not associated with nor dissociated from
Any phenomenon at all.¹⁶
This inconceivable armor
Transcends all enumeration.

“Because this armor is unsurpassed,
It has no bondage or liberation.
It has none of the marks of form, feeling, perception,
Formation, or consciousness.

“It is not associated or combined with
Any of those marks.
It is neither associated with nor dissociated from
The marks of any phenomenon.
It also is not associated or combined with
The absence of marks.

“Because this armor is unsurpassed,
It has no bondage and no liberation.

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