འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.10

5.10

“Earth, fire, water, and air together create the body,
So according to causes and conditions, different results are obtained.
Though they dwell together, they harm one another
Like four poisonous snakes in one basket.

“The four snakes of the great elements have different natures.
Though they live together, some are higher, some lower.
They go upward and downward, pervading the body,
And in the end these become phenomena that cease.

“Among these four poisonous snakes,
The earth and water snakes mostly sink downward.
The fire and air snakes have a light nature,
And because of this conflict, many illnesses arise.

“The mind and consciousnesses live in this body
And create various kinds of good and bad actions
So that they go to the deva, human, or three lower existences,
Taking a body in accord with the power of their karma.

“When the body has encountered illness, after death
It is completely filled by feces, urine, and all other impurities.
It becomes rotten,⁶⁹⁴ damaged by worms, and undesirable to see,
And it is cast into a charnel ground as if it were rotten wood.

“You should observe phenomena in that way!
Why should you believe that a self or a being exists?
All phenomena come to an end and so are impermanent.
They all rise from the condition of ignorance.

“These great elements⁶⁹⁵ have no reality.
They have no real existence; their nature is unborn.
Therefore, it is taught that the great elements are in essence empty.
Know that these are empty and that they are not real.⁶⁹⁶

“The nature of ignorance is primordially nonexistent.⁶⁹⁷
It is not existent⁶⁹⁸ through an accumulation based on the power of many factors.
A correct understanding is devoid of it at all times,⁶⁹⁹
And therefore that is why I teach it to be ignorance.

“Formations and consciousness are the factors for name and form;
The six āyatanas, contact, and sensation arise afterward.
Craving, grasping, and becoming produce birth, old age, and death,
And they are followed by misery, lamentation, and agitation.

“There is no time limit to circling in saṃsāra,
Continuously bound and pierced by bad karma and various sufferings.