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 15.17

15.17

“Why is it the skillful method of the guides? Because it conveys all to happiness and goodness.

“Why is it subtle? Because it brings the peace of focusing on nirvāṇa.

“Why is it difficult to know? Because it is difficult to discern.

“Why is it difficult to know for those without dedication? Because they have not previously obtained it.

“Why is it beyond words and difficult to know through speech? Because of the inconceivability of all phenomena.

“Why is it known by the wise? Because it is a great, precious meaning.

“Why is it the knowledge of pleasant beings? Because they know all forms of reverence.

“Why is it realized by those with few desires? Because they give rise to reverence.¹⁴⁵⁴

“Why is it possessed by those who have undertaken it? Because they do not abandon their undertaking.

“Why is it kept by those who are mindful? Because they do not allow it to perish.

“Why is it the cessation of suffering? Because it brings the elimination of desire, anger, and ignorance.

“Why is it the birthlessness of all phenomena? Because it brings the cessation of all consciousness.

“Why is it the single teaching? Because all classes of existence, all death and transference, and all rebirths are like dreams, which means that all phenomena are without origination.

“You should know these three hundred points. Young man, they are the samādhi, the revealed equality of the nature of all phenomena.”¹⁴⁵⁵

Thereupon the Bhagavān spoke these verses:

“The Buddha’s Dharma is vast.
The teaching of its practice is vast.
When the Dharma is taught in a vast way
The qualities attained will be vast. {1}

“The characteristics of the Dharma
Are just as vast as space.
It contains vast jewels and light rays¹⁴⁵⁶
And therefore it is called vast. {2}