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'''Chapter 7. Investigation of Birth, Abiding and Perishing'''

[Skt. title is ''"investigation of the compounded - samskrita"'']

'''''(Birth)'''''

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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ་འདུས་བྱས་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ལ་མཚན་ཉིད་གསུམ་ལྡན་འགྱུར།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་སྟེ་སྐྱེ་བ་འདུས་མ་བྱས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟར་འདུས་བྱས་མཚན་ཉིད་ཡིན།།</span><br>

1. [[gal te]] [[skye ba]] [['dus byas]] [[na]]/<br>
[[de la]] [[mtshan nyid gsum]] [[ldan]] [['gyur]]/<br>
[[ci ste]] [[skye ba]] [['dus ma byas]]/<br>
[[ji ltar]] [['dus byas]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[yin]]//<br>

1. If birth were compounded, it would possess the three characteristics [of a compound]. If birth were uncompounded, how would it be a characteristic of a compound?

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<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་ལ་སོགས་གསུམ་སོ་སོ་ཡིས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འདུས་བྱས་མཚན་ཉིད་བྱ་བར་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ནུས་མིན་གཅིག་ལ་དུས་གཅིག་ཏུ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འདུས་པ་ཡང་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་རུང།།</span><br>

2. [[skye]] [[la sogs]] [[gsum]] [[so so]] [[yis]]/<br>
[['dus byas]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[bya ba]]r [[ni]]/<br>
[[nus min]] [[gcig]] [[la du]]s [[gcig tu]]/<br>
[['dus pa]] [[yang]] [[ni]] [[ji ltar]] [[rung]]//<br>

2. The three such as birth cannot individually be that which characterizes compounds. How is it possible for one at one time to be compounded [of all three]? 

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<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་དང་གནས་དང་འཇིགརྣམས་ལ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འདུས་བྱས་མཚན་ཉིད་གཞན་ཞིག་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཡོད་ན་ཐུག་མེད་འགྱུར།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མེད་ན་དེ་དག་འདུས་བྱས་མིན།།</span><br>

3. [[skye]] [[dang]] [[gnas]] [[dang]] [['jig]] [[rnams]] [[la]]/<br>
[['dus byas]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[gzhan zhig]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[gal te]] [[yod na]] [[thug med]] [['gyur]]/<br>
[[med na]] [[de dag]] [['dus byas]] [[min]]//<br>

3. If birth, abiding and perishing had another characteristic of being compounded, this would be endless. If not, they would not be compounded.

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<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བའི་སྐྱེ་བས་རྩ་བ་ཡི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་འབའ་ཞིག་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།རྩ་བའི་སྐྱེ་བས་སྐྱེ་བ་ཡི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བའང་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད་པ་ཡིན།།</span><br>

4. [[skye ba]]'i [[skye ba]]s [[rtsa ba]] [[yi]]/<br>
[[skye ba]] [['ba' zhig]] [[skyed par byed]]/<br>
[[rtsa ba'i skye ba]]s [[skye ba]] [[yi]]/<br>
[[skye ba]]'ang [[skyed par byed pa]] [[yin]]//<br>

4. The birth of birth gives birth to the root birth alone. The root birth also is that which gives birth to the birth of birth.

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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་བའི་སྐྱེས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།རྩ་བའི་སྐྱེ་བ་སྐྱེད་བྱེད་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་རྩ་བས་མ་བསྐྱེད་དེས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད།།</span><br>

5. [[gal te]] [[khyod kyi]] [[skye ba]]'i [[skyes]]/<br>
[[rtsa ba'i skye ba]] [[skyed byed]] [[na]]/<br>
[[khyod kyi]] [[rtsa ba]]s [[ma]] [[bskyed]] [[des]]/<br>
[[de ni]] [[ji ltar]] [[skyed par byed]]//<br>

5. If your birth of birth gives birth to the root birth, how does that which is not yet born from your root give birth to that [root birth]? 

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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་རྩ་བ་ཡིས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།བསྐྱེད་པ་དེ་ཡིས་རྩ་སྐྱེད་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེས་མ་སྐྱེད་པའི་རྩ་བ་དེས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད།།</span><br>

6. [[gal te]] [[khyod kyi]] [[rtsa ba]] [[yis]]/<br>
[[bskyed pa]] [[de]] [[yis]] [[rtsa]] [[skyed]] [[na]]/<br>
[[des]] [[ma skyed]] [[pa]]'i [[rtsa ba]] [[des]]/<br>
[[de ni]] [[ji ltar]] [[skyed par byed]]//<br>

6. If that which is born from your root birth gives birth to the root, how does that root which is born from that give birth to that [from which it is born]? 

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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་མ་སྐྱེས་པ་དེ་ཡིས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་སྐྱེད་པ་ནི་བྱེད་ནུས་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ་དེ་ཡིས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་སྐྱེད་པར་ནི་འདོད་ལ་རག།།</span><br>

7. [[gal te]] [[ma skyes pa]] [[de]] [[yis]]/<br>
[[de]] [[skyed pa]] [[ni]] [[byed]] [[nus]] [[na]]/<br>
[[khyod kyi]] [[skye bzhin pa]] [[de]] [[yis]]/<br>
[[de]] [[skyed pa]]r [[ni]] [['dod]] [[la]] [[rag]]//<br>

7. If that which has not been born is able to give birth to that, that of yours which is being born should be able to give birth to that.

[v. 4-7: This is a clear example of another hand interfering with the text. Not only is it incapable of being reset as poetry...it's incompatible with the style of the verses which precede and especially those that follow. Also cf. MMK 1: 7-9]

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<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟར་མར་མེ་རང་དང་གཞན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྣང་བར་བྱེད་པ་དེ་བཞིན་དུ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བའང་རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དངོས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གཉིས་ཀ་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད་པ་ཡིན།།</span><br>

8. [[ji ltar]] [[mar me]] [[rang]] [[dang]] [[gzhan]]/<br>
[[snang bar byed pa]] [[de bzhin du]]/<br>
[[skye ba]]'ang [[rang dang gzhan]] [[gyi]] [[dngos]]/<br>
[[gnyis ka]] [[skyed par byed pa]] [[yin]]//<br>

8. Just as lamplight illuminates itself and others, likewise birth too gives birth to both itself and the thing of others.

([[rang dang gzhan]] - "itself and others" - is here the Tibetan form of the Skt. svaparaatma, cf. svabhava / parabhava.)

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<span class=TibUni18>།མར་མེ་དང་ནི་གང་དག་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་འདུག་པ་ན་མུན་པ་མེད།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མར་མེས་ཅི་ཞིག་སྣང་བར་བྱེད།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མུན་པ་སེལ་བས་སྣང་བྱེད་ཡིན།།</span><br>

9. [[mar me]] [[dang]] [[ni]] [[gang dag]] [[na]]/<br>
[[de]] [['dug pa]] [[na]] [[mun pa]] [[med]]/<br>
[[mar me]]s [[ci zhig]] [[snang ba]]r [[byed]]/<br>
[[mun pa sel ba]]s [[snang byed]] [[yin]]//<br>

9. Wherever lamplight is present there is no darkness. How does lamplight illuminate? It illuminates by dispelling darkness.

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<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ཚེ་མར་མེ་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མུན་པ་དང་ནི་ཕྲད་མེད་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟར་མར་མེ་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མུན་པ་སེལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་ཡིན།།</span><br>

10. [[gang tshe]] [[mar me]] [[skye bzhin pa]]/<br>
[[mun pa]] [[dang]] [[ni]] [[phrad]] [[med na]]/<br>
[[ji ltar]] [[mar me]] [[skye bzhin pa]]s/<br>
[[mun pa sel ba]]r [[byed pa]] [[yin]]//<br>

10. If, when lamplight is being generated, it does not encounter darkness, how does the generation of lamplight dispel darkness?

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<span class=TibUni18>།མར་མེ་ཕྲད་པ་མེད་པར་ཡང།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་མུན་པ་སེལ་བྱེད་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འཇིག་རྟེན་ཀuh་ན་གནས་པའི་མུན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འདི་ན་གན་པ་དེས་སེལ་འགྱུར།།</span><br>

11. [[mar me]] [[phrad pa]] [[med par]] [[yang]]/<br>
[[gal te]] [[mun pa sel]] [[byed]] [[na]]/<br>
[['jig rten]] [[kun na]] [[gnas pa]]'i [[mun]]/<br>
[['di na]] [[gnas pa]] [[des]] [[sel]] [['gyur]]//<br>

11. If darkness is dispelled even though it does not encounter lamplight, this [lamplight] dwelling here would eliminate the darkness that dwells in all the worlds.

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<span class=TibUni18>།མར་མེ་*རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དངོས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་སྣང་བར་བྱེད་འགྱུར་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མུན་པའང་རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དངོས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྒྲིབ་པར་འགྱུར་བར་ཐེ་ཚོམ་མེད།།</span><br>

12. [[mar me]]* [[rang dang gzhan]] [[gyi]] [[dngos]]/<br>
[[gal te]] [[snang ba]]r [[byed]] [['gyur]] [[na]]/<br>
[[mun pa]]'ang [[rang dang gzhan]] [[gyi]] [[dngos]]/<br>
[[sgrib par 'gyur]] [[bar]] [[the tshom med]]//<br>

['''Ts.''' *mes - *མེས་]

12. If lamplight illuminated itself and that of others, darkness too would without doubt obscure itself and the thing of others.

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<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་འདི་ནི་མ་སྐྱེས་པས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།རང་གི་བདག་ཉིད་ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེད།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་སྟེ་སྐྱེས་པས་སྐྱེད་བྱེད་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེས་ན་ཅི་ཞིག་བསྐྱེད་དུ་ཡོད།།</span><br>

13. [[skye ba 'di]] [[ni]] [[ma skyes pa]]s/<br>
[[rang gi bdag nyid]] [[ji ltar]] [[skyed]]/<br>
[[ci ste]] [[skyes pa]]s [[skyed byed]] [[na]]/<br>
[[skyes na]] [[ci zhig]] [[bskyed]] [[du yod]]//<br>

13. How can unborn birth give birth to itself? If the born gives birth, when it has been born, what would be born?

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<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེས་དང་མ་སྐྱེས་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟ་བུར་ཡང་མི་སྐྱེད་པ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་སོང་དང་མ་སོང་དང།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།བགོམ་པས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཡིན།།</span><br>

14. [[skyes]] [[dang]] [[ma skyes]] [[skye bzhin pa]]/<br>
[[ji lta bu]]r [[yang]] [[mi skyed pa]]/<br>
[[de ni]] [[song]] [[dang]] [[ma song]] [[dang]]/<br>
[[bgom pa]]s [[rnam par bshad pa]] [[yin]]//<br>

14. Born and the unborn - ''being'' born does not in any way give birth. That has been explained by the gone, not gone and going.

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<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ཚེ་སྐྱེ་བ་ཡོད་པ་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བཞིན་འདི་འབྱུང་མེད་པའི་ཚེ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བཞིན་ཞེས་ནི་བརྗོད་པར་བྱ།།</span><br>

15. [[gang tshe]] [[skye ba]] [[yod pa]] [[na]]/<br>
[[skye]] [[bzhin]] [['di]] [['byung]] [[med pa]]'i [[tshe]]/<br>
[[ji ltar]] [[skye]] [[la brten nas]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[skye]] [[bzhin]] [[zhes ni]] [[brjod par bya]]//<br>

15. When being born does not arise in what is born, then how can one say "[it is] being born in dependence on the born"?

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<span class=TibUni18>།རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྱུང་བ་གང་ཡིན་པ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་ངོ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ཞི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཕྱིར་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དང་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་ཡང་ནི་ཞི་བ་ཉིད།།</span><br>

16. [[rten cing 'byung]] [[ba]] [[gang yin pa]]/<br>
[[de ni]] [[ngo bo nyid kyis]] [[zhi]]/<br>
[[de phyir]] [[skye]] [[bzhin nyid]] [[dang]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[skye ba]] [[yang]] [[ni]] [[zhi ba]] [[nyid]]//<br>

16. Whatever is dependently arising, such is by nature pacified. Therefore, being born and what is born too are pacified.

['''Ts.''' 174-6 gives a good summary of the identity of [[Dependent Arising]] and [[emptiness]] with citations, including (174): "Whoever sees dependent and relational arising sees the [[Dharma]]; whoever sees the Dharma sees the [[Buddha]]." and (175) "What is born from conditions is unborn. By its very nature it has no birth. What is dependent on conditions is said to be empty. He who knows emptiness is conscientious ([[bag yod]])"].

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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་དངོས་པོ་མ་སྐྱེས་པ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འགའ་ཞིག་གང་ན་ཡོད་གྱུར་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་དངོས་པོ་དེ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མེད་ན་ཅི་ཞིག་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>

17. [[gal te]] [[dngos po]] [[ma skyes pa]]/<br>
[['ga' zhig]] [[gang na]] [[yod]] [[gyur na]]/<br>
[[de ni]] [[skye 'gyur]] [[dngos po]] [[de]]/<br>
[[med na]] [[ci zhig]] [[skye ba]]r [['gyur]]//<br>

17. If any unborn thing existed anywhere, upon being born that [unborn] thing would not exist. If so, what would be born?

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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ་དེ་ཡིས་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ་ནི་སྐྱེད་བྱེད་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་དེ་ནི་སྐྱེ་བ་ལྟ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ཞིག་གིས་ནི་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད།།</span><br>

18. [[gal te]] [[skye ba]] [[de]] [[yis]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[skye bzhin pa]] [[ni]] [[skyed byed]] [[na]]/<br>
[[skye ba]] [[de ni]] [[skye ba]] [[lta]]/<br>
[[gang zhig gis ni]] [[skyed par byed]]//<br>

18. If that which has been born gives birth to what is being born, what [other thing] that has been born would be giving birth to that which has been born?

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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ་གཞན་ཞིག་གིས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་སྐྱེད་ཐུག་པ་མེད་པར་འགྱུར།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་སྟེ་སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་སྐྱེ་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཐམས་ཅད་དེ་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>

19. [[gal te]] [[skye ba gzhan]] [[zhig]] [[gis]]/<br>
[[de]] [[skyed]] [[thug pa med par 'gyur]]/<br>
[[ci ste]] [[skye ba med]] [[skye]] [[na]]/<br>
[[thams cad]] [[de bzhin]] [[skye ba]]r [['gyur]]//<br>

19. If another [thing] that has been born gives birth [to it], this would be endless. If it is born without [another] which has been born [OR if it is born without being born], everything would be born like that [i.e. causelessly].

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<span class=TibUni18>།རེ་ཞིག་ཡོད་དང་མེད་པ་ཡང།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བར་རིགས་པ་མ་ཡིན་ཞིང།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་མེད་ཉིད་ཀྱང་མ་ཡིན་ཞེས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གོང་དུ་བསྟན་པ་ཉིད་ཡིན་ནོ།།</span><br>

20. [[re zhig]] [[yod dang med pa]] [[yang]]/<br>
[[skye bar]] [[rigs pa ma yin]] [[zhing]]/<br>
[[yod med nyid]] [[kyang]] [[ma yin]] [[zhes]]/<br>
[[gong du bstan pa]] [[nyid]] [[yin no]]//<br>

20. Thus it is neither reasonable for what exists nor does not exist to be born. It has been shown above that there is neither existent nor non-existent.

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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་འགག་བཞིན་ཉིད་ལ་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ཞིག་འགག་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་པ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་དངོས་པོར་མི་འཐད་དོ།།</span><br>

21. [[dngos po]] [['gag]] [[bzhin nyid]] [[la]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[skye ba]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]/<br>
[[gang zhig]] [['gag]] [[bzhin ma]] [[yin pa]]/<br>
[[de ni]] [[dngos por]] [[mi 'thad]] [[do]]//<br>

21. It is not tenable for a thing that is perishing to be born. It is not tenable for that which is not perishing to be a thing.

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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་གནས་པ་མི་གནས་ཏེ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་མི་གནས་གནས་པ་མིན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གནས་བཞིན་པ་ཡང་མི་གནས་ཏེ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མ་སྐྱེས་གང་ཞིག་གནས་པར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>

22. [[dngos po]] [[gnas pa]] [[mi gnas]] [[te]]/<br>
[[dngos po]] [[mi gnas]] [[gnas pa]] [[min]]/<br>
[[gnas bzhin pa]] [[yang]] [[mi gnas]] [[te]]/<br>
[[ma skyes]] [[gang zhig]] [[gnas par 'gyur]]//<br>

22. A thing that has remained does not remain. A thing that has not [yet] remained does not remain. That which is remaining also does not remain. What unborn [thing] can remain? 

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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་འགག་བཞིན་ཉིད་ལ་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གནས་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ཞིག་འགག་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་པ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་དངོས་པོར་མི་འཐད་དོ།།</span><br>

23. [[dngos po]] [['gag]] [[bzhin nyid]] [[la]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[gnas pa]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]/<br>
[[gang zhig]] [['gag]] [[bzhin ma]] [[yin pa]]/<br>
[[de ni]] [[dngos por]] [[mi 'thad]] [[do]]//<br>

23. It is not possible for a thing that is perishing to remain. It is not possible for that which is not perishing to be a thing.

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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ཐམས་ཅད་དུས་ཀུན་ཏུ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།རྒ་དང་འཆི་བའི་ཆོས་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གང་དག་རྒ་དང་འཆི་མེད་པར།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གནས་པའི་དངོས་པོ་གང་ཞིག་ཡོད།།</span><br>

24. [[dngos po thams cad]] [[dus kun tu]]/<br>
[[rga dang 'chi ba]]'i [[chos]] [[yin na]]/<br>
[[gang dag]] [[rga]] [[dang]] [['chi med]] [[par]]/<br>
[[gnas pa]]'i [[dngos po]] [[gang zhig]] [[yod]]//<br>

24. If all things at all times are aging and dying phenomena, what things are there which could remain without aging and dying?

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<span class=TibUni18>།གནས་པ་གནས་པ་གཞན་དང་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་གནས་མི་རིགས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ་བ་རང་དང་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་གྱིས་བསྐྱེད་པ་མ་ཡིན་བཞིན།།</span><br>

25. [[gnas pa]] [[gnas pa]] [[gzhan]] [[dang]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[de nyid]] [[kyis]] [[kyang]] [[gnas mi]] [[rigs]]/<br>
[[ji ltar]] [[skye ba]] [[rang]] [[dang]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[gzhan gyis]] [[bskyed pa]] [[ma yin]] [[bzhin]]//<br>

25. It is not reasonable for what remains to remain due to something else that remains or due to itself. This is like how what has been born is neither given birth to by itself nor another. [cf. v.18-19]

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<span class=TibUni18>།འགགས་པ་འགག་པར་མི་འགྱུར་ཏེ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མ་འགགས་པ་ཡང་འགག་མི་འགྱུར།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་བཞིན་པ་ཡང་དེ་བཞིན་མིན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མ་སྐྱེས་གང་ཞིག་འགག་པར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>

26. [['gags pa]] [['gag pa]]r [[mi 'gyur]] [[te]]/<br>
[[ma 'gags pa]] [[yang]] [['gag]] [[mi 'gyur]]/<br>
[['gag]] [[bzhin pa]] [[yang]] [[de bzhin min]]/<br>
[[ma skyes]] [[gang zhig]] [['gag pa]]r [['gyur]]//<br>

26. What has ceased does not cease. What has not ceased also does not cease. Likewise what is ceasing also does not. What unborn [thing] can cease? [cf. v. 22]

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<span class=TibUni18>།རེ་ཞིག་དངོས་པོ་གནས་པ་ལ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་མི་གནས་པ་ལ་ཡང།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།།</span><br>

27. [[re zhig]] [[dngos po]] [[gnas pa]] [[la]]/<br>
[['gag pa]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]/<br>
[[dngos po]] [[mi gnas pa]] [[la yang]]/<br>
[['gag pa]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]//<br>

27. It is not possible for a thing which has remained to cease. It is also not possible for a thing which has not remained to cease.

[past tense "has remained" follows Skt. (K .175). Tib. and '''Ts.''' 183 could read: "It is not possible for a thing which remains to cease. It is also not possible for a thing which does not remain to cease."]

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<span class=TibUni18>།གནས་སྐབས་དེ་ཡིས་གནས་སྐབས་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཉིད་འགག་པ་ཉིད་མི་འགྱུར།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གནས་སྐབས་གཞན་གྱིས་གནས་སྐབས་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་ཡང་འགག་པ་ཉིད་མི་འགྱུར།།</span><br>

28. [[gnas skabs]] [[de]] [[yis]] [[gnas skabs]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[de nyid]] [['gag pa]] [[nyid]] [[mi 'gyur]]/<br>
[[gnas skabs]] [[gzhan gyis]] [[gnas skabs]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[gzhan yang]] [['gag pa]] [[nyid]] [[mi 'gyur]]//<br>

28. A particular state [of something] does not cause that particular state itself to cease. Moreover, another particular state does not cause that particular state to cease.

['''Ts.''' 184 illustrates this with the example of milk and curds (butter), i.e.: milk does not cause milk to cease, nor do curds cause milk to cease.]

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<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ཚེ་ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་བ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཚེ་ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།།</span><br>

29. [[gang tshe]] [[chos rnams thams cad]] [[kyi]]/<br>
[[skye ba]] [['thad par mi 'gyur ba]]/<br>
[[de tshe]] [[chos rnams thams cad]] [[kyi]]/<br>
[['gag pa]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]//<br>

29. When the birth of all phenomena is not possible, then the cessation of all phenomena is not possible.

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<span class=TibUni18>།རེ་ཞིག་དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་ལ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གཅིག་ཉིད་ན་ནི་དངོས་པོ་དང།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་མེད་པ་འཐད་པ་མེད།།</span><br>

30. [[re zhig]] [[dngos po yod pa]] [[la]]/<br>
[['gag pa]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]/<br>
[[gcig nyid]] [[na]] [[ni]] [[dngos po]] [[dang]]/<br>
[[dngos po med pa]] [['thad pa]] [[med]]//<br>

30. Cessation is not possible in an existent thing. Thingness and nothingness are not possible in one.

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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་མེད་པར་གྱུར་པ་ལའང།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མགོ་གཉིས་པ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གཅད་དུ་མེད་པ་དེ་བཞིན་ནོ།།</span><br>

31. [[dngos po med pa]]r [[gyur pa]] [[la'ang]]/<br>
[['gag pa]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]/<br>
[[mgo gnyis pa]] [[la]] [[ji ltar]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[gcad du med]] [[pa]] [[de bzhin no]]//<br>

31. Cessation is not possible also in what is not a thing. This is similar to how there is no cutting off a second head. [i.e. a person cannot be beheaded twice]

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<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་པ་རང་གི་བདག་ཉིད་ཀྱིས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་མིན་འགག་པ་གཞན་གྱིས་མིན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ་བ་རང་དང་ནི།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་གྱིས་སྐྱེད་པ་མ་ཡིན་བཞིན།།</span><br>

32. [['gag pa]] [[rang gi bdag nyid]] [[kyis]]/<br>
[[yod min]] [['gag pa]] [[gzhan gyis]] [[min]]/<br>
[[ji ltar]] [[skye ba]] [[rang]] [[dang]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[gzhan gyis]] [[skyed pa]] [[ma yin]] [[bzhin]]//<br>

32. Cessation does not exist by its own self, nor does cessation [exist] by something else. This is like how what has been born is neither given birth to by itself nor another [cf. 25]

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<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་དང་གནས་དང་འཇིག་པ་དག།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།མ་གྲུབ་ཕྱིར་ན་འདུས་བྱས་མེད།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འདུས་བྱས་རབ་ཏུ་མ་གྲུབ་པས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།འདུས་མ་བྱས་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་འགྲུབ།།</span><br>

33. [[skye]] [[dang]] [[gnas]] [[dang]] [['jig pa]] [[dag]]/<br>
[[ma grub]] [[phyir na]] [['dus byas]] [[med]]/<br>
[['dus byas]] [[rab tu]] [[ma grub pa]]s/<br>
[['dus ma byas]] [[ni]] [[ji ltar]] [['grub]]//<br>

33. Because birth and remaining and perishing are not established, there is no conditioned. Because the conditioned is utterly unestablished, how can the unconditioned be established?

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<span class=TibUni18>།རྨི་ལམ་ཇི་བཞིན་སྒྱུ་མ་བཞིན།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ཇི་བཞིན་དུ།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་དང་དེ་བཞིན་གནས།</span><br>

<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་བཞིན་དུ་ནི་འཇིག་པ་གསུངས།།</span><br>

34. [[rmi lam]] [[ji bzhin]] [[sgyu ma]] [[bzhin]]/<br>
[[dri za'i grong khyer]] [[ji bzhin du]]/<br>
[[de bzhin]] [[skye]] [[dang]] [[de bzhin gnas]]/<br>
[[de bzhin du]] [[ni]] [['jig pa]] [[gsungs]]//<br>

34. Like a dream, like a magician's illusion, like a city of gandharvas, likewise birth and likewise remaining, likewise perishing are taught.
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<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་དང་གནས་པ་དང་འཇིག་པ་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་བདུན་པའོ།།</span><br>

[[skye ba]] [[dang]] [[gnas pa]] [[dang]] [['jig pa]] [[brtag pa]] [[zhes bya ba]] [[ste]] [[rab tu byed pa]] [[bdun pa]]'o//<br>
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