འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 6

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[such designations are merely] designated. Son of good family, it is just like this: for example, suppose an illusionist or a clever apprentice of an illusionist sat at a great crossroads, gathered grass, leaves, wood, pebbles, and pot-shards together, and displayed various illusionary workings such as a troop of elephants, a troop of cavalry, a troop of chariots, and a troop of infantry, as well as an accumulation of jewels, pearls, lapis lazuli, conches, crystal, and coral, along with wealth, grain, storehouses, and granaries. Thereupon, those sentient beings who have an immature nature, a bewildered nature, an aberrant prajñā nature, and do not understand those [gatherings of] grass, leaves, wood, pebbles, and pot-shards—whenever they see or hear that, they think: 'That which appears as a troop of elephants exists. That which appears as a troop of horses, a troop of chariots, a troop of infantry, jewels, pearls, lapis lazuli, conches, crystal, coral, wealth, grain, storehouses, and granaries exists.' Thinking thus, exactly as they have seen and heard, they obstinately cling to it as supreme, grasp onto it, and subsequently apply conventional designations, declaring: 'Only this is true; anything else is false!' Later, they will need to examine this closely. However, those sentient beings who do not have an immature nature, do not have a bewildered nature, have an endowed prajñā nature, and understand those [gatherings of] grass, leaves, wood, pebbles, and pot-shards—whenever they see or hear that, they think: 'That which appears as a troop of elephants does not exist. That which appears as a troop of cavalry, a troop of chariots, a troop of infantry, jewels, pearls, lapis lazuli, conches, crystal, coral, wealth, grain, storehouses,