འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4

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and bliss of the taste of the Dharma, had wholly transcended the five great fears, were solely progressing on the avaivartika stage, and had directly realized the stage that pacifies all harms for all sentient beings, namely: the bodhisattva mahāsattva Gambhīrārthasaṃdhinirmocana, Vidhivatparipṛcchaka, Dharmodgata, Suviśuddhaprabha, Vipulamati, Guṇākara, Paramārthasamudgata, the noble Avalokiteśvara, Maitreya, and the bodhisattva mahāsattva Mañjuśrī, and so forth. Then the bodhisattva Vidhivatparipṛcchaka, in reference to the ultimate truth characterized by the inexpressible and non-dual, questioned the bodhisattva Gambhīrārthasaṃdhinirmocana: “Son of the Conqueror, when it is said, ‘all phenomena are non-dual, all phenomena are non-dual,’ what are all phenomena, and how are they non-dual?” [Gambhīrārthasaṃdhinirmocana replied:] “Noble son, ‘all phenomena, all phenomena’ are merely twofold: the conditioned and the unconditioned. In that regard, the conditioned is neither conditioned nor unconditioned. The unconditioned is also neither unconditioned nor conditioned.” He asked: “Son of the Conqueror, how is the conditioned neither conditioned nor unconditioned, and the unconditioned also neither unconditioned nor conditioned?” “Noble son, ‘conditioned’ is a term designated by the Teacher. Whatever is a term designated by the Teacher is a conventional expression arisen from mental construction. Whatever is a conventional expression arisen from mental construction is not conditioned, because conventional expressions of diverse mental construction are entirely unestablished.