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 15.8
The King of Samādhis Sūtra 15.8
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15.8
It is the knowledge of the absence of creation and destruction.
“What is the knowledge of accomplishment and definite accomplishment?¹⁴¹⁸ It is sharp wisdom.
“What is the knowledge of all language? It is correctly teaching the Dharma.
“What is the knowledge of presentation?¹⁴¹⁹ It is the knowledge of correct engagement.
“What is the knowledge of attaining certainty in meaning? It is cutting through the skandha of mental activities.
“What is abandoning that which is harmful? It is transcending existence and causing others to transcend existence.
“What is relying upon excellent beings? It is not being apart from a buddha.
“What is being together with excellent beings? It is attending upon buddhas, bodhisattvas, pratyekabuddhas, and śrāvakas.
“What is avoiding bad beings? It is avoiding those who are fixated on perceptions and those who are lazy.
“What is delighting¹⁴²⁰ in dhyāna?¹⁴²¹ It is avoiding the thorns of desire, not forsaking dhyāna, and not abandoning joy.
“What is not clinging to dhyāna? It is wishing to transcend the three existences, wishing to ripen beings, and wishing for the light of higher wisdom.
“What is the utilization of the higher cognitions? It is teaching to others, through the five higher cognitions, the Dharma teachings of the Buddha that are difficult to understand.
“What is the knowledge of assigned names? It is the understanding that names are without reality.
“What is the use of designations? It is worldly usage.
“What is employing designations? It is the knowledge of speaking.
“What is disillusionment with saṃsāra? It is reflecting upon the harm of saṃsāra.
“What is not being motivated by material gain? It is having few desires.
“What is having no interest in gain or honors? It is being free of regret and free of the wish to commit sinful actions.