འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 12.18
The King of Samādhis Sūtra 12.18
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12.18
And musical instruments of various kinds.
They know existence to be empty
And do not rejoice in rebirth in existence.
They have the ten strengths, are adorned by the signs,
And they illuminate all ten directions. {69}
“ ‘The bodhisattvas established in retention
Have no attachment to the phenomena of the three realms.
They have no attachment to the realm of desire,
To the form realm, or to the formless realm. {70}
“ ‘The bodhisattvas established in retention
Have no concept of a self, no concept of being,
No concept of a soul, and no concept of an individual,
And always practice unsullied celibacy. {71}
“ ‘The bodhisattvas established in retention
Have no concept of things and no concept of nothing,
No concept of happiness and no concept of unhappiness,
And no concept of number and no concept of numberlessness.¹²⁴² {72}
“ ‘They have no concept of existence and no concept of nonexistence,¹²⁴³
No concept of woman and no concept of man,
No concept of villages and no concept of towns,
And no concept of regions and no concept of market towns.¹²⁴⁴ {73}
“ ‘The bodhisattvas established in retention
Have no concept of desire and no concept of no desire,
No concept of stupidity and no concept of no stupidity,
And no concept of ignorance and no concept of no ignorance.¹²⁴⁵ {74}
“ ‘The bodhisattvas established in retention
Have no concept of pride and no concept of no pride,
No concept of ignorance and no concept of no ignorance,
And no concept of view and no concept of no view.¹²⁴⁶ {i}
“ ‘The bodhisattvas established in retention
Have no attachment to the powers and the strengths,
No attachment to the dhyānas and the aspects of enlightenment,
And have abandoned all the evils in the three realms. {75}
“ ‘They have no desire or passion, no anger or rage;
They have no ignorance or dullness, and are always honest.
When they see the buddhas with their ten strengths, they honor them.
And they do not gain knowledge for the sake of rebirth in the higher realms. {76}
“ ‘When they hear the unique Dharma from another,
They never have any doubt in it.
They know if there is deficiency or not in others’ minds,