mi skye ba'i chos la bzod pa

mi skye ba'i chos la bzod pa

An attainment characteristic of the effortless and spontaneous wakefulness of the 8th ground of the bodhisattvas.

Here we are concerned with the "intuitive tolerance of the birthlessness (or incomprehensibility) of all things" (anutpattikadharmakṣānti or anupalabdhidharmakṣānti). To translate kṣānti as "knowledge" or "conviction" defeats entirely the Skt. usage and its intended sense: In the face of birthlessness or incomprehensibility (i.e., the ultimate reality), ordinary knowledge and especially convictions are utterly lost; this is because the mind loses objectifiability of anything and has nothing to grasp, and its process of coming to terms may be described only as a conscious cancellation through absolute negations of any false sense of certainty about anything. Through this tolerance, the mind reaches a stage where it can bear its lack of bearings, as it were, can endure this kind of extreme openness, this lack of any conviction, etc. There are three degrees of this tolerance—verbal (ghoṣānugā), conforming (anulomikī), and complete. See Introduction, http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-060-005.html#UT22084-060-005-19, and Lamotte, Appendice, Note III.

See "tolerance of the birthlessness of things."

The forbearance to accept and understand the non-arising of phenomena, attained by a bodhisattva on the 8th level (see note http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-062-018.html#UT22084-062-018-183).

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