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 7.10

7.10

And it is the same for atoms, {27}

“But I see that even a single sentient being
Has far more numerous
Aspirations and motivations
That are developed at numerous times.⁸¹⁴ {28}

“Yet even the aspirations of all beings
Are not adequate as an analogy
For those qualities of the body
That I have indicated. {29}

“One cannot⁸¹⁵ through⁸¹⁶ attributes and actions
Know the appearance of these kinds
Of qualities⁸¹⁷ of a buddha,
And that is my distinctive characteristic. {30}

“The buddhas are devoid of attributes.
They are the manifestation of the dharmakāya.
They are profound and immeasurable,
And therefore the buddhas are inconceivable. {31}

“The inconceivable buddha body
Of a buddha is also inconceivable.
Those bodies are inconceivable.
They are the manifestation of the dharmakāya. {32}

“The mind is incapable of conceiving
The bodies of the buddhas.
One cannot, therefore, obtain
The measure of such a body. {33}

“Those immeasurable qualities
I have practiced for ten million eons.
Therefore have I accomplished
A body that is inconceivable and radiant, too. {34}

“There is no being that can grasp it
Or that can obtain its measure.
In that way the body of a buddha
Is inconceivable and immeasurable. {35}

“Because the qualities are immeasurable
There is no measure that can be conceived for them.⁸¹⁸
Because the qualities are not conceived
The buddha also is inconceivable. {36}

“The measured is taught to be a conception;
The measureless is nonconceptual.
That which is not conceived is without conception;
Therefore the buddha is inconceivable. {37}

“Just as space is limitless
And no one is able to measure it,
Likewise a buddha’s body
Is just the same as space. {38}

“Those who thus know the body
Of the buddhas are the progeny of the jinas.
They will also become buddhas,
Inconceivable lords of worlds.” {39}

Chapter 24

The Inconceivable Tathāgata

Then the Bhagavān said to the youth Candraprabha,