འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 111

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It is not produced by the three times. Therefore, it is not produced. That which is not produced does not cease. That which does not cease does not come from anywhere. That which does not come from anywhere does not go anywhere. That which does not go anywhere is neither eternal nor nothingness. It is neither one nor separate. Why is that? If the five skandhas were one with the Dharma realm, they would not be different from the Dharma realm. Then childlike, ordinary beings would perceive the ultimate truth and attain the sublime bliss of nirvāṇa. But it is not like that, so they are not one.

“If they were separate from the Dharma realm then the conduct of the buddhas and bodhisattvas would have their same characteristics and they would not become liberated from the bondage of the kleśas and they would not attain the highest, most complete enlightenment of buddhahood.

“Why is that? It is because the āryas have the single nature of the composite and noncomposite, and therefore they are not different. Therefore, the five skandhas are neither existent nor nonexistent. They are neither produced by causes and conditions, nor not produced by causes and conditions. Words cannot reach this. It has no name or features. It has no cause or condition. It cannot be taught through examples. It is devoid of a beginning or an end. It is naturally empty. This is what the āryas know, but it is not within the field of experience of others. Therefore, the Dharma realm is taught through the five skandhas.

“Moreover, noble goddess, any noble son or noble daughter who wishes for the highest, most complete enlightenment, in which the ultimate and the relative are not anything other than each other, that is difficult to comprehend. The nature of the fields of experience of āryas and lower beings are not one, nor are they different.