འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 11

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of aggregates. Dharmodgata, it is just like, for example, someone who has long striven in dispute out of grasping onto 'mine' and who delights in dispute, cannot imagine, infer, or believe in the lack of grasping onto 'mine' and the lack of dispute among the people of Uttarakuru. In the same way, Dharmodgata, all dialecticians cannot imagine, infer, or believe in the character of the ultimate that completely transcends all dialectical thought." Then the Bhagavān spoke these verses at that time:
"Its domain is the character of one's own personal realization; / Inexpressible and completely cutting off conventional designations, / Free from dispute is the ultimate dharma; / Its character transcends all dialectical thought."
This is the second chapter, on Dharmodgata. Then the bodhisattva Viśuddhamati addressed the Bhagavān: "Bhagavān, that the Bhagavān has stated, 'The ultimate is subtle, profound, with a character that completely transcends sameness and difference, and difficult to comprehend,'—just as the Bhagavān has so well spoken it, so is it wondrous! Bhagavān, here in a certain place, I saw a great many bodhisattvas who had entered the stage of engagement through faith. Taking as their topic the sameness and difference between saṃskāras and the ultimate, they gathered together and assembled. There, some bodhisattvas said: 'The character of saṃskāras and the character of the ultimate are not different.' Others said: 'It is not that the character of saṃskāras and the character of the ultimate are not different; rather, the character of saṃskāras and the character of the ultimate are different.'