འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.7

3.7

“If they wish to attain the result of becoming a stream entrant, the result of becoming a once-returner, the result of becoming a non-returner, or the result of becoming an arhat, they should purify themselves of karmic obscurations through practicing purity through regret.

“If they seek the three knowledges or the six higher cognitions, the enlightenment that is the independence of the śrāvaka and pratyekabuddha, or if they seek omniscient wisdom, completely pure wisdom, inconceivable wisdom, unshakable wisdom,³⁴¹ or the omniscient wisdom of complete buddhahood, they should purify themselves of karmic obscurations through practicing purity through regret.

“Why is that? Noble son, it has been taught that all phenomena arise from causes and conditions, and also the tathāgatas have taught that there is the cessation of separate characteristics. Because causes and conditions are separate, in this way past phenomena cease and come to an end, so that all the various karmic obscurations are composite phenomena that have not been produced but are produced in the present and will not arise as future karmic obscurations.

“Why is that? Noble son, all phenomena are empty. The Tathāgata has taught that there is no self, individual, being, or soul; that there is no birth and no cessation; and that composite phenomena also do not exist.

“Noble son, all phenomena are not described in terms of their essence as a basis. Why is that? Because that transcends all features.

“It is taught that a noble man or noble woman who comprehends this sublime meaning, has strong conviction in it,