[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Samādhirājasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo) › [The King of Samadhis Sutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000) › 13.21 # 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 13.21 The King of Samādhis Sūtra 13.21 - **Language:** English ### [13.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.13.21) Becomes strong with the strength of samādhi. {29} “ ‘Just as echoes are created through conditions In caves, mountains, and canyons, All that is composite is known to be the same: The entire world is like an illusion, a mirage. {30} “ ‘This samādhi of peace is taught by one Who has the strength of wisdom, the qualities of the Dharma, Who with the strength of knowledge has the higher cognitions of the sages, And who has skill in methods of speech and knows the definitions of words. {31} “ ‘The appellations that are spoken are merely appellations; Within saṃsāra there is no end to be found. That which was in the past is devoid of characteristics, And one should be certain that the future is the same. {32} “ ‘Through engaging in creating karma There will be the best and the worst. Knowing that all things are always empty, Empty by nature, and that all things are without a self, {33} “ ‘The Jina thus teaches the relative Dharma: Regard the composite and noncomposite in that way. There truly is no self and no human. That is the characteristic of all beings. {34} “ ‘Good and bad karma are indestructible. Whatever I have created I will have to experience; The result of one’s actions cannot be transferred to others. Nothing is experienced without a cause.¹³⁴⁰ {35} “ ‘All existences are illusory and powerless, As insubstantial and insignificant as foam. They are always empty, like illusions and mirages.¹³⁴¹ They are taught through words, but are devoid of them. {36} “ ‘Understand in that way without having pride. Have correct conduct but without attachment, With the power of patience have no conceptualization, And, practicing in that way, rest in equanimity.’ {37} “The king understood the Dharma That was taught by the Jina. When the king had heard this Dharma from the Jina, Together with his entourage he took up the training. {38} “The king, having heard this samādhi, Joyous and happy, said these words: ‘This samādhi you have taught is excellent And I bow down to your feet.’ {39} “Eighty thousand beings who were there - [Previous: 13.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.13.20) - [Next: 13.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.13.22) - [Up: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.13) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo.13.21) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.13.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.13.21) · Pramāṇa