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འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 86

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The three aspects of prajñā are: taking the conventional truth as ālambana, taking the ultimate truth as ālambana, and taking the welfare of sentient beings as ālambana. 'Bhagavān, why are those pāramitās called pāramitās?' 'Avalokiteśvara, it is due to five reasons: because of non-attachment, because of non-expectation, because of faultlessness, because of non-conceptuality, and because of dedication. In that regard, non-attachment is having no intense attachment to objects that are incompatible with the pāramitās. Non-expectation is having no mind that expects the ripening fruit of the pāramitās or looks for reciprocal benefit. Faultlessness is when those pāramitās are unmixed with defiled phenomena and are entirely free from wrong methods. Non-conceptuality is having no literal grasping at the specific characteristics of those pāramitās. Dedication is aspiring toward the fruit of bodhi for the sake of bodhisattvas through having performed and accumulated those very pāramitās.' 'Bhagavān, what are the things incompatible with the pāramitās?' 'Avalokiteśvara, they should be understood as six things: viewing desirable pleasure, wealth, mastery, and one's own comfort as advantageous qualities; acting completely according to one's desires with body, speech, and mind; being unable to endure insults, lacking diligence, seeking comfort, socializing, engaging in diverse worldly affairs and distractions; and viewing the conceptual elaborations of the designations of seen, heard, distinguished, and cognized as advantageous qualities.' 'Bhagavān, what are the ripening fruits of those pāramitās?' 'Avalokiteśvara, they should also

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