འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 45

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very intrinsic naturelessness, the selflessness of phenomena, tathatā, which is the object of observation of purification, is the thoroughly established characteristic. Relying upon that, the Bhagavān designates one among those [aspects of] the intrinsic naturelessness of the ultimate of phenomena. Just as it is for the noble truth of suffering, so it should be applied to the remaining truths as well. Just as it is for the truths, so it should be applied to each of the applications of mindfulness, the correct abandonments, the bases of miraculous power, the faculties, the powers, the limbs of awakening, and the limbs of the path. Bhagavān, I understand the meaning spoken by the Bhagavān in this way: that which is the designation of names and conventions—as the characteristic of an intrinsic nature or the characteristic of a particularity—such as 'correct concentration,' 'the discordant factor and antidote of concentration,' 'the cultivation of concentration,' 'the arising of the unarisen,' or 'the abiding, non-forgetting, re-arising, and increase and expansion of what has arisen,' on the conditioned marks that are the basis of the imputed characteristic, which is the domain of conceptual construction—that is the imputed characteristic. Relying upon that, the Bhagavān designates the intrinsic naturelessness of characteristics of phenomena. That which is the conditioned mark that is the basis of the imputed characteristic, the domain of conceptual construction, is the other-dependent characteristic. Relying upon that, the Bhagavān designates the intrinsic naturelessness of arising of phenomena, and also designates one among those [aspects of] the intrinsic naturelessness of the ultimate. Bhagavān, the meaning spoken by the Bhagavān, I