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 4.14
The King of Samādhis Sūtra 4.14
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4.14
“The bodhisattvas who know
That teaching on phenomena
Will not cease from elucidation⁵⁰⁶
Even though they teach ten million sūtras. {14}
“Through the blessing of the Guide
The ultimate truth is known.
When the ultimate is known
There is nothing to be taught. {15}
“Through one thing, everything is known.
Through one thing, everything is seen.
However much they teach
They will not become proud. {16}
“With their minds they have ascertained
The selflessness of all phenomena,
And as they are trained in teaching using terms,
They speak with words that are correct. {17}
“Whatever sound they hear,
They know its past.⁵⁰⁷
Knowing the past⁵⁰⁸ of that sound
They are not captivated⁵⁰⁹ by that sound. {18}
“Just like the past⁵¹⁰ of a sound,
So are the characteristics of phenomena.
Knowing phenomena to be like that
They will not be reborn in a womb. {19}
“They know that all phenomena are unborn
And that they have no origin.
Knowing this teaching on birth⁵¹¹
They always remember their previous lives. {20}
“When they remember those lives
They perform their actions.
For those who perform those actions
Their community of followers remains united. {21}
“The bodhisattvas who know
The emptiness of phenomena
Will never be without that knowledge.
It is the summit of nothingness. {22}
“When the foolish think about
The summit of nothingness
They continue in saṃsāra
For millions of eons. {23}
“If they are able to understand it
Just as the Guide knows it,
Then they will have no suffering
And they will not go to the lower realms. {24}
“All ordinary individuals
Are ignorant of this nature.
They reject this kind of Dharma
That brings the cessation of suffering.⁵¹² {25}
“Phenomena are perceived when
No phenomena can be found.
Recognize that perception
When that perception occurs. {26}
“The foolish conceptualize
Through consciousness and perception.
The wise do not become ignorant
In conceiving of phenomena. {27}