འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 61

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Maitreya, regarding that, the meaning of non-distortion is the opposite of that, and should be known to be its antidote. Maitreya, regarding that, the meaning of affliction is of three aspects: the affliction of the kleśas of the traidhātuka, the affliction of karma, and the affliction of rebirth. Maitreya, regarding that, the meaning of purification consists of those dharmas concordant with bodhi for the sake of becoming free from those three aspects of affliction themselves. Maitreya, it should be known that all meaning is subsumed by these ten aspects. Maitreya, furthermore, a bodhisattva correctly comprehends meaning through five aspects. What are the five aspects of meaning? The entity to be thoroughly known, the meaning to be thoroughly known, thorough knowledge, the attainment of the fruit of thorough knowledge, and the realization thereof. Maitreya, regarding that, the entity to be thoroughly known should be regarded as all knowable things, such as what are called the aggregates, what are called the internal sensory bases, what are called the external sensory bases, and so forth. Maitreya, regarding that, the meaning to be thoroughly known is that the knowables are to be known as they really are in all their aspects; that is, the conventional and the ultimate, defects and virtues, conditions, times, the characteristics of arising, abiding, and disintegrating, illnesses and so forth, suffering, the origin, and so forth, tathatā, the ultimate limit, the dharmadhātu, inclusion, distinction, categorical answering, analytical answering, answering with a question, setting aside, the esoteric, the proclaimed, and what conforms to such—these should be known as the meaning to be thoroughly known. Maitreya, regarding that, thorough knowledge is both of those