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How many stations of fearlessness are there to be obtained by a bodhisattva?” When Vajrapāṇi had finished speaking thus, the World-honored One Mahāvairocana addressed him, saying, “Listen attentively and consider most carefully \[what I say\]. Lord of Mysteries, when those ordinary people, foolish and childlike, cultivate wholesome actions and renounce unwholesome actions, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of the wholesome.’ If they know the self as it really is, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of the body.’ If they observe their own body composed of the aggregates of attachment, abandoning any material image of themselves, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of no-self.’ If they renounce the aggregates and dwell in the cognition of dharmas, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of dharmas.’ If they renounce dharmas and dwell without any object \[of cognition\], they will obtain ‘fearlessness of the noself of dharmas.’ Again, all \[five\] aggregates, \[eighteen\] elements, and \[twelve\] sense fields, the grasper and the grasped, self, life, and so on, as well as dharmas and objectlessness, are empty and their own-nature is without any \[essential\] nature—when this knowledge of emptiness is born, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of the equality of the own-nature of all dharmas.’ “Lord of Mysteries, if bodhisattvas cultivating bodhisattva practices via the gateway of mantras examine in deep cultivation the ten propositions about dependent arising, they will master mantra practices and achieve realization therein. What are the ten \[propositions about dependent arising\]? They are, namely, that \[dependent arising\] is like an illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection, a gandharva city, an echo, the moon \[reflected\] in water, bubbles, a flower in empty space, and a whirling wheel of fire. Lord of Mysteries, those bodhisattvas cultivating bodhisattva practices via the gateway of mantras should observe in the following manner. “What is an illusion? It is just as when, through the art of magic and the power of drugs, various visible images, both those creating \[other illusions\] and those created, deceive one’s eyes so that one sees remarkable things that produce one another in succession, coming and going in the ten directions, and yet they neither go nor do they not go. Why? Because their original nature is pure. In the same way illusions \[produced by\] mantras are able to produce anything through success in recitation. “Next, Lord of Mysteries, a mirage is by nature empty; it is in dependence on the false notions of worldlings that it is established and may be spoken about. In the same way the notion of mantras is merely a provisional designation. “Next, Lord of Mysteries, just as things seen in a dream last for a day, a muhūrta (forty-eight minutes), a kṣaṇa (instant), a year, or some other \[period of time\], are of various strange kinds, and cause experiences of all manner of suffering and happiness, yet upon awakening there is nothing whatsoever to be seen, so too should the dreamlike mantra practices be known to be thus. “Next, Lord of Mysteries, with the analogy of a reflection one compre- hends how mantras are able to produce siddhi. Just as a face in dependence on a mirror manifests an image of the face, so too should one understand siddhi \[produced by\] mantras. “Next, Lord of Mysteries, with the analogy of an \[imaginary\] gandharva city one comprehends the accomplishment of a palace \[produced as\] siddhi. “Next, Lord of Mysteries, with the analogy of an echo one comprehends the sound of mantras. Just as an echo exists in dependence on sound, so too should the mantrin understand \[mantras\]. “Next, Lord of Mysteries, just as the moon rises with the result that it shines upon clear water and manifests a reflected image of the moon, so too - [Previous: 1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1.12) - [Next: 1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1.14) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-mt.1.13) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經 (Śubhakarasiṃha & Yixing 724)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh.1.13) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1.13) · Pramāṇa