འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.9

5.9

“I have taught the true⁶⁸⁶ Dharma of emptiness
Extensively in other profound sūtras.
At this time, in this king of sūtras,
I shall teach inconceivable emptiness in brief.

“Beings with no knowledge are unable to understand
A lengthy, extensive, profound Dharma.
Therefore, from my teaching briefly in this sūtra,
They will understand the Dharma of emptiness perfectly.⁶⁸⁷

“Because of my great compassion and love for beings,
From my teaching today in this vast gathered assembly,
Through the perfect cause and condition of extremely skillful methods,
They will clearly understand the meaning of emptiness.⁶⁸⁸

“Know that this body is like an empty village⁶⁸⁹
Where live six thieves⁶⁹⁰ who do not know one another.
The six sensory objects dwell with the separate senses, the thieves,
And they similarly have no knowledge of one another.⁶⁹¹

“The sense of sight is always looking at forms.
The sense of hearing continuously hears sounds.
The sense of smell is always smelling smells.
The sense of taste is always experiencing flavors.

“The sense of touch seizes soft tactility.
The mental sense never tires of cognizing phenomena.
These six senses follow after things
And give rise to thoughts about their objects.

“The consciousnesses are not real, like magical illusions.
They dwell in the sense organs and, wanting company,⁶⁹² search for it.
The six consciousnesses in the six senses are like
A man who is running around in an empty village.

“The mind follows into the places of searching,
And, through the sensory bases cognizing objects of perception,
There is the constant craving for form, sound, smell, taste, and touch,
And there is not a single instant when the practice of Dharma is present.⁶⁹³

“According to the conditions, the six senses run,
Like a bird flying unimpeded in the sky.
In dependence on the senses as a basis,
There is the ability to cognize external objects.

“The body has no consciousness, and it has no creator.
It has an unstable nature and was created through conditions.
It arises from invalid conceptualization.
It is like a machine that is used for work.