འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5

5

“Noble son, ‘unconditioned’ is also subsumed under conventional expression; and whatever is expressed apart from the conditioned and the unconditioned likewise becomes identical to that, and it will be identical to that as well. Yet expression is not without a real entity. And what is that entity? It is that which has been completely and perfectly awakened to as inexpressible by the noble knowledge and noble vision of the noble ones; for the sake of bringing about complete and perfect realization of that very inexpressible dharmatā, the name ‘conditioned’ was designated. Noble son, ‘unconditioned’ is also 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 unconditioned, because conventional expressions of diverse mental construction are entirely unestablished. Noble son, ‘conditioned’ is also subsumed under conventional expression; and whatever is expressed apart from the conditioned and the unconditioned likewise becomes identical to that, and it will be identical to that as well. Yet expression is not without a real entity. And what is that entity? It is that which has been completely and perfectly awakened to as inexpressible by the noble knowledge and noble vision of the noble ones; for the sake of bringing about complete and perfect realization of that very inexpressible dharmatā, the name ‘unconditioned’ was designated.” “Son of the Conqueror, how has that entity been completely and perfectly awakened to as inexpressible by the noble knowledge and noble vision of the noble ones, so that for the sake of bringing about complete and perfect realization of that very inexpressible dharmatā, the names ‘conditioned’ and ‘unconditioned’ [were designated]?”