འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 32

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“Noble one, there is no other wisdom that is superior to nonconceptual wisdom. There is no field of activity that is superior to that of the true nature of phenomena. There is the true nature of phenomena and the true nature of wisdom, and the true nature of those two true natures is not one and not different. Therefore, the Dharma body is pure wisdom and pure elimination, and because of those two, the Dharma body is the perfection of purity.

“Moreover, noble one, there are four ways to categorize these three bodies: that which is the emanation body but not the enjoyment body; that which is the enjoyment body but not the emanation body; that which is both the emanation body and the enjoyment body; and that which is neither the emanation body nor the enjoyment body.

“What is the emanation body but not the enjoyment body? The emanation body is when the tathāgatas, even though they have passed into nirvāṇa, through the power of their prayers benefit beings in accordance with their worthiness.

“What is the enjoyment body and not the emanation body? That is a body that is seen on⁸⁰ the bhūmis.

“What is both the emanation body and the enjoyment body? That is the body of nirvāṇa with a residue.

“What is neither the emanation body nor the enjoyment body? That is the Dharma body.

“Noble one, the Dharma body is the direct perception of the nonduality of phenomena. What is nonduality?⁸¹ In the Dharma body, there are no characteristics, nor any basis for characteristics; there is no existence and there is no nonexistence; there is no singularity and no differences; there is no number and there is nothing to be enumerated; and there is no light and there is no darkness.

“In that way, in the wisdom of the true nature there is no perception of characteristics or any basis for characteristics;