འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 107

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Know the range of sensory perception—
Forms, sounds, and likewise smells,
Flavors, tactility, and the range of mental phenomena—

“The mind enters the senses, moving like a bird
Throughout all six of them.
In whatever sense it is present,
It has the nature of that sense’s perception.¹⁸⁸

“The body is unmoving and has no activity.
It has no essence and arises from conditions.
It has no real existence but arises from concepts.
It is an empty village; it is like a working machine.

“Earth, fire, water, and air
Dwell here and there outside the village.¹⁸⁹
They are like poisonous snakes in one location
That are always in conflict with one another.

“Of those four snakes of the elements,
Two move upward and two go downward;
They go in twos to the main and intermediate directions,
And all those element snakes are destroyed.

“The earth snake and the water snake—
These two come to an end below.
The fire snake and the air snake—
They go upward into the sky.

“The mind and the consciousnesses remain,
And they go according to previous karma.
According to the karma created in the past, they are reborn
Into an existence among devas, humans, or the three lower realms.

“When the phlegm, air, and bile come to an end,
The body becomes covered with urine and vomit.¹⁹⁰
It becomes a disgusting mass of worms
And is cast into the charnel ground as if it were wood.

“Goddess, look at these phenomena,
At whatever being or individual is here;
All of these phenomena are empty,
But they occur through the factor of ignorance.

“All these great elements¹⁹¹ are not ‘great occurrences.’
They occur through nonoccurrence and so do not occur.
Because the occurring elements are nonoccurring,
For that reason I call them ‘great elements.’¹⁹²