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fully taught it." Then, at that time, the Bhagavān spoke these verses: / "The realm of saṃskāras and the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate / Are a lakṣaṇa free from being one or different. / Those who conceptualize them as one or different / Have proceeded improperly. / / When beings have cultivated / Vipaśyanā and śamatha, / They will be liberated from the bond of dauṣṭhulya / And from the bond of nimittas." / The third chapter, on Viśuddhamati. / Then the Bhagavān said to the venerable Subhūti: "Subhūti, in the realm of sentient beings, how many sentient beings do you know who express understanding while being possessed by presumption? In the realm of sentient beings, how many sentient beings do you know who express understanding without presumption?" Subhūti replied: "Bhagavān, I know that in the realm of sentient beings, sentient beings who express understanding without presumption are few. But Bhagavān, I know that in the realm of sentient beings, those who express understanding while being possessed by presumption are immeasurable, countless, and ineffable. Bhagavān, once when I was dwelling in a great wilderness forest, very many monks in my vicinity also stayed relying upon that great wilderness forest. In the morning, when the monks gathered together from here and there, they expressed understanding by teaching the realization focusing on various dharmas. There, some focused on the aggregates, focused on the nimitta of the aggregates, focused on the arising of the aggregates, focused on the disintegration of the aggregates, and focused on the [cessation of] the