འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 29

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they fully know characterless dharmas as they truly are. Guṇākara, therein, when a bodhisattva fully knows the dependent characteristic as it truly is, they fully know dharmas with the characteristic of affliction as they truly are. Guṇākara, therein, when a bodhisattva fully knows the thoroughly established characteristic as it truly is, they fully know dharmas with the characteristic of purification as they truly are.

"Guṇākara, therein, when a bodhisattva fully knows characterless dharmas in the dependent characteristic as they truly are, they abandon dharmas with the characteristic of affliction. When they abandon dharmas with the characteristic of affliction, they attain dharmas with the characteristic of purification.

"Guṇākara, because a bodhisattva thus fully knows as they truly are the imagined characteristic, the dependent characteristic, and the thoroughly established characteristic of dharmas; fully knows as they truly are the characterless, the characteristic of affliction, and the characteristic of purification; and having fully known characterless dharmas as they truly are, abandons dharmas with the characteristic of affliction; and having abandoned dharmas with the characteristic of affliction, attains dharmas with the characteristic of purification—to that extent a bodhisattva is skilled in the characteristics of dharmas, and to that extent the Tathāgata designates a bodhisattva as skilled in the characteristics of dharmas."

Then, on that occasion, the Bhagavān spoke these verses:

"When characterless dharmas are fully known,
Dharmas with the characteristic of affliction are abandoned;