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'''Chapter 1. - Investigation of Conditions''' | |||
(Conditions) | (Conditions) | ||
<span class=TibUni18> | ________________________________ | ||
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<span class=TibUni18> | <span class=TibUni18>།བདག་ལས་མ་ཡིན་གཞན་ལས་མིན།</span><br> | ||
<span class=TibUni18>།གཉིས་ལས་མ་ཡིན་རྒྱུ་མེད་མིན།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་གང་དག་གང་ན་ཡང།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་ནམ་ཡང་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།</span><br> | |||
1. [[bdag las ma yin]] [[gzhan las]] [[min]]/<br> | 1. [[bdag las ma yin]] [[gzhan las]] [[min]]/<br> | ||
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1. No thing anywhere is ever born from itself, from something else, from both or without a cause. | 1. No thing anywhere is ever born from itself, from something else, from both or without a cause. | ||
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2. rkyen rnams bzhi ste rgyu dang ni/<br> | |||
dmigs pa dang ni de ma thag/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་རྣམས་བཞི་སྟེ་རྒྱུ་དང་ནི།</span><br> | ||
bdag po yang ni de bzhin te/<br> | |||
rkyen lnga pa ni yod ma yin//<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།དམིགས་པ་དང་ནི་དེ་མ་ཐག།</span><br> | ||
<span class=TibUni18>།བདག་པོ་ཡང་ནི་དེ་བཞིན་ཏེ།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་ལྔ་པ་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།</span><br> | |||
2. [[rkyen]] [[rnams]] [[bzhi]] [[ste]] [[rgyu]] [[dang]] [[ni]]/<br> | |||
[[dmigs pa]] [[dang]] [[ni]] [[de ma thag]]/<br> | |||
[[bdag po]] [[yang]] [[ni]] [[de bzhin]] [[te]]/<br> | |||
[[rkyen]] [[lnga pa]] [[ni]] [[yod ma yin]]//<br> | |||
2. There are four conditions: Causes, objects, immediate and dominant. There is no fifth. | 2. There are four conditions: Causes, objects, immediate and dominant. There is no fifth. | ||
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3. dngos po rnams kyi rang bzhin ni/<br> | |||
rkyen la sogs pa yod ma yin/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི།</span><br> | ||
bdag gi dngos po yod min na/<br> | |||
gzhan dngos yod pa ma yin no//<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་ལ་སོགས་པ་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br> | ||
<span class=TibUni18>།བདག་གི་དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་མིན་ན།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་དངོས་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།</span><br> | |||
3. [[dngos po rnams]] [[kyi]] [[rang bzhin]] [[ni]]/<br> | |||
[[rkyen]] [[la sogs pa]] [[yod ma yin]]/<br> | |||
[[bdag gi]] [[dngos po]] [[yod min]] [[na]]/<br> | |||
[[gzhan dngos]] [[yod pa ma yin]] [[no]]//<br> | |||
3. The essence of things does not exist in conditions and so on. If an own thing does not exist, an other thing does not exist. | 3. The essence of things does not exist in conditions and so on. If an own thing does not exist, an other thing does not exist. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།བྱ་བ་རྐྱེན་དང་ལྡན་པ་མེད།</span><br> | |||
4. bya ba rkyen dang ldan pa med/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་དང་མི་ལྡན་བྱ་བ་མེད།</span><br> | ||
rkyen dang mi ldan bya ba med/<br> | |||
bya ba mi ldan rkyen ma yin/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།བྱ་བ་མི་ལྡན་རྐྱེན་མ་ཡིན།</span><br> | ||
bya ba ldan yod 'on te na//<br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།བྱ་བ་ལྡན་ཡོད་འོན་ཏེ་ན།།</span><br> | |||
4. [[bya ba]] [[rkyen]] [[dang]] [[ldan pa]] [[med]]/<br> | |||
[[rkyen]] [[dang]] [[mi ldan]] [[bya ba]] [[med]]/<br> | |||
[[bya ba]] [[mi ldan]] [[rkyen]] [[ma yin]]/<br> | |||
[[bya ba]] [[ldan]] [[yod]] [['on te]] [[na]]//<br> | |||
4. There is no activity which has conditions. There is no activity which does not have conditions. There are no conditions which do not have activity, and none which do have activity. | 4. There is no activity which has conditions. There is no activity which does not have conditions. There are no conditions which do not have activity, and none which do have activity. | ||
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5. 'di dag la brtan skye | |||
de phyir 'di dag rkyen ces grag/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།འདི་དག་ལ་བརྟན་སྐྱེ་བས་ན།</span><br> | ||
ci srid mi skye de srid du/<br> | |||
'di dag rkyen min ci ltar min//<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཕྱིར་འདི་དག་རྐྱེན་ཅེས་གྲག།</span><br> | ||
<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་སྲིད་མི་སྐྱེ་དེ་སྲིད་དུ།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།འདི་དག་རྐྱེན་མིན་ཅི་ལྟར་མིན།།</span><br> | |||
5. [['di dag]] [[la]] [[brtan]] [[skye ba]]s [[na]]/<br> | |||
[[de phyir]] [['di dag]] [[rkyen]] [[ces]] [[grag]]/<br> | |||
[[ci]] [[srid]] [[mi skye]] [[de srid du]]/<br> | |||
[['di dag]] [[rkyen]] [[min]] [[ci ltar]] [[min]]//<br> | |||
5. Since something is born in dependence upon them, then they are known as "conditions". As long as it is not born, why are they not non-conditions? | 5. Since something is born in dependence upon them, then they are known as "conditions". As long as it is not born, why are they not non-conditions? | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།མེད་དམ་ཡོད་པའི་དོན་ལ་ཡང།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་ནི་རུང་བ་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།མེད་ན་གང་གི་རྐྱེན་དུ་འགྱུར།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་ན་རྐྱེན་གྱིས་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ།།</span><br> | |||
6. [[med]] [[dam]] [[yod pa]]'i [[don la]] [[yang]]/<br> | |||
[[rkyen]] [[ni]] [[rung ba]] [[ma yin te]]/<br> | |||
[[med na]] [[gang gi]] [[rkyen du 'gyur]]/<br> | |||
[[yod na]] [[rkyen gyis]] [[ci zhig bya]]//<br> | |||
7. gang tshe chos ni yod pa dang/<br> | 6. It is impossible for something that either exists or not to have conditions. If it were non-existent, of what would these be the conditions? If it were existent, why would it need conditions? | ||
med dang yod med mi 'grub | |||
ci ltar sgrub byed rgyu zhes bya/<br> | ________________________________ | ||
de ltar yin na mi rigs so//<br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ཚེ་ཆོས་ནི་ཡོད་པ་དང།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།མེད་དང་ཡོད་མེད་མི་འགྲུབ་པས།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་ལྟར་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ཞེས་བྱ།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ལྟར་ཡིན་ན་མི་རིགས་སོ།།</span><br> | |||
7. [[gang tshe]] [[chos]] [[ni]] [[yod pa]] [[dang]]/<br> | |||
[[med]] [[dang]] [[yod med]] [[mi 'grub pa]]s/<br> | |||
[[ci ltar]] [[sgrub byed]] [[rgyu]] [[zhes bya]]/<br> | |||
[[de ltar]] [[yin na]] [[mi rigs]] [[so]]//<br> | |||
7. When things cannot be established as either existent, non-existent or both, how can one speak of an "establishing cause." Such would be impossible. | 7. When things cannot be established as either existent, non-existent or both, how can one speak of an "establishing cause." Such would be impossible. | ||
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8. yod pa'i chos 'di dmigs pa ni/<br> | |||
med pa kho na nye bar bstan/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་པའི་ཆོས་འདི་དམིགས་པ་ནི།</span><br> | ||
ci ste chos ni dmigs med na/<br> | |||
dmigs pa yod par ga la 'gyur//<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།མེད་པ་ཁོ་ན་ཉེ་བར་བསྟན།</span><br> | ||
<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་སྟེ་ཆོས་ནི་དམིགས་མེད་ན།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།དམིགས་པ་ཡོད་པར་ག་ལ་འགྱུར།།</span><br> | |||
8. [[yod pa]]'i [[chos 'di]] [[dmigs pa]] [[ni]]/<br> | |||
[[med pa]] [[kho na]] [[nye bar bstan]]/<br> | |||
[[ci ste]] [[chos]] [[ni]] [[dmigs med]] [[na]]/<br> | |||
[[dmigs pa]] [[yod par]] [[ga la 'gyur]]//<br> | |||
8. An existent phenomenon is clearly said to have no object at all. If the phenomenon has no object, where can the object exist? | 8. An existent phenomenon is clearly said to have no object at all. If the phenomenon has no object, where can the object exist? | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།ཆོས་རྣམས་སྐྱེས་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཕྱིར་དེ་མ་ཐག་མི་རིགས།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།འགགས་ན་རྐྱེན་ཡང་གང་ཞིག་ཡིན།།</span><br> | |||
9. chos rnams skyes pa ma yin na/<br> | 9. [[chos rnams]] [[skyes pa]] [[ma yin na]]/<br> | ||
'gag pa 'thad | [['gag pa]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]/<br> | ||
de phyir de ma thag mi rigs/<br> | [[de phyir]] [[de ma thag]] [[mi rigs]]/<br> | ||
'gags na rkyen yang gang zhig yin//<br> | [['gags]] [[na]] [[rkyen]] [[yang]] [[gang zhig]] [[yin]]//<br> | ||
9. If phenomena are not born, it is invalid for there to be cessation. Therefore, an immediate [condition] is unreasonable. What, having ceased, can also be a condition? | 9. If phenomena are not born, it is invalid for there to be cessation. Therefore, an immediate [condition] is unreasonable. What, having ceased, can also be a condition? | ||
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10. dngos po rang bzhin med rnams kyi/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་རང་བཞིན་མེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི།</span><br> | ||
yod pa gang phyir yod min na/<br> | |||
'di yod pas na 'di 'byung zhes/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་པ་གང་ཕྱིར་ཡོད་མིན་ན།</span><br> | ||
bya ba 'di ni 'thad ma yin//<br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།འདི་ཡོད་པས་ན་འདི་འབྱུང་ཞེས།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།བྱ་བ་འདི་ནི་འཐད་མ་ཡིན།།</span><br> | |||
10. [[dngos po]] [[rang bzhin med]] [[rnams]] [[kyi]]/<br> | |||
[[yod pa]] [[gang phyir]] [[yod min]] [[na]]/<br> | |||
[['di]] [[yod pas]] [[na]] [['di]] [['byung]] [[zhes]]/<br> | |||
[[bya ba]] [['di ni]] [['thad ma yin]]//<br> | |||
10. Because the existence of essence-less things does not exist, it is incorrect to say:"When this exists, that arises." | 10. Because the existence of essence-less things does not exist, it is incorrect to say:"When this exists, that arises." | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་རྣམས་སོ་སོ་འདུས་པ་ལ།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།འབྲས་བུ་དེ་ནི་མེད་པ་ཉིད།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་རྣམས་ལ་ནི་གང་མེད་པ།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་རྐྱེན་ལས་ཅི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ།།</span><br> | |||
11. rkyen rnams so so 'dus pa la/<br> | 11. [[rkyen]] [[rnams]] [[so so]] [['dus pa]] [[la]]/<br> | ||
'bras bu de ni med pa nyid/<br> | [['bras bu]] [[de ni]] [[med pa nyid]]/<br> | ||
rkyen rnams la ni gang med pa/<br> | [[rkyen]] [[rnams]] [[la]] [[ni]] [[gang med pa]]/<br> | ||
de ni rkyen las ci ltar skye//<br> | [[de ni]] [[rkyen las]] [[ci ltar]] [[skye]]//<br> | ||
11. There is no effect at all in the conditions individually or together. How can that which is not in the conditions itself be born from conditions? | 11. There is no effect at all in the conditions individually or together. How can that which is not in the conditions itself be born from conditions? | ||
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12. ci ste 'bras bu de med kyang/<br> | |||
rkyen de dag las skye 'gyur na/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་སྟེ་འབྲས་བུ་དེ་མེད་ཀྱང།</span><br> | ||
rkyen min las kyang 'bras bu ni/<br> | |||
ci yi phyir na skye mi 'gyur//<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་དེ་དག་ལས་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་ན།</span><br> | ||
<span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་མིན་ལས་ཀྱང་འབྲས་བུ་ནི།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་ཡི་ཕྱིར་ན་སྐྱེ་མི་འགྱུར།།</span><br> | |||
12. [[ci ste]] [['bras bu]] [[de]] [[med]] [[kyang]]/<br> | |||
[[rkyen]] [[de dag]] [[las]] [[skye 'gyur]] [[na]]/<br> | |||
[[rkyen]] [[min]] [[las kyang]] [['bras bu]] [[ni]]/<br> | |||
[[ci yi phyir]] [[na]] [[skye]] [[mi 'gyur]]//<br> | |||
12. If, although the effect is not there, it is born from those conditions, why is an effect not born from what are not its conditions? | 12. If, although the effect is not there, it is born from those conditions, why is an effect not born from what are not its conditions? | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།འབྲས་བུ་རྐྱེན་གྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་རྣམས་བདག་གི་རང་བཞིན་མིན།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།བདག་དངོས་མིན་ལས་འབྲས་བུ་གང།</span><br> | |||
13. 'bras bu rkyen gyi rang bzhin ni/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་ཅི་ལྟར་རྐྱེན་རང་བཞིན།།</span><br> | ||
rkyen rnams bdag gi rang bzhin min/<br> | |||
bdag dngos min las 'bras bu gang/<br> | 13. [['bras bu]] [[rkyen]] [[gyi]] [[rang bzhin]] [[ni]]/<br> | ||
de ni ci ltar rkyen rang bzhin//<br> | [[rkyen]] [[rnams]] [[bdag gi]] [[rang bzhin]] [[min]]/<br> | ||
[[bdag dngos]] [[min]] [[las 'bras bu]] [[gang]]/<br> | |||
[[de ni]] [[ci ltar]] [[rkyen]] [[rang bzhin]]//<br> | |||
13. Effects [are of] the nature of conditions. Conditions do not have own nature. How can those effects of what does not have own nature [be of] the nature of conditions? | 13. Effects [are of] the nature of conditions. Conditions do not have own nature. How can those effects of what does not have own nature [be of] the nature of conditions? | ||
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14. de phyir rkyen gyi rang bzhin min/<br> | |||
rkyen min rang bzhin 'bras bu ni/<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཕྱིར་རྐྱེན་གྱི་རང་བཞིན་མིན།</span><br> | ||
yod min 'bras bu med bas na/<br> | |||
rkyen min rkyen du ga la 'gyur//<br> | <span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་མིན་རང་བཞིན་འབྲས་བུ་ནི།</span><br> | ||
<span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་མིན་འབྲས་བུ་མེད་བས་ན།</span><br> | |||
<span class=TibUni18>།རྐྱེན་མིན་རྐྱེན་དུ་ག་ལ་འགྱུར།།</span><br> | |||
14. [[de phyir]] [[rkyen]] [[gyi]] [[rang bzhin]] [[min]]/<br> | |||
[[rkyen]] [[min]] [[rang bzhin]] [['bras bu]] [[ni]]/<br> | |||
[[yod min]] [['bras bu]] [[med]] [[bas na]]/<br> | |||
[[rkyen]] [[min]] [[rkyen]] [[du]] [[ga]] [[la]] [['gyur]]//<br> | |||
14. Therefore, [it does] not have the nature of conditions, nor is there an effect with the nature of non-conditions. Since there is no effect, what could [be its] non-conditions or conditions? | 14. Therefore, [it does] not have the nature of conditions, nor is there an effect with the nature of non-conditions. Since there is no effect, what could [be its] non-conditions or conditions? | ||
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Chapter 1. - Investigation of Conditions
(Conditions)
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།བདག་ལས་མ་ཡིན་གཞན་ལས་མིན།
།གཉིས་ལས་མ་ཡིན་རྒྱུ་མེད་མིན།
།དངོས་པོ་གང་དག་གང་ན་ཡང།
།སྐྱེ་བ་ནམ་ཡང་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།
1. bdag las ma yin gzhan las min/
gnyis las ma yin rgyu med min/
dngos po gang dag gang na yang/
skye ba nam yang yod ma yin//
1. No thing anywhere is ever born from itself, from something else, from both or without a cause.
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།རྐྱེན་རྣམས་བཞི་སྟེ་རྒྱུ་དང་ནི།
།དམིགས་པ་དང་ནི་དེ་མ་ཐག།
།བདག་པོ་ཡང་ནི་དེ་བཞིན་ཏེ།
།རྐྱེན་ལྔ་པ་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།
2. rkyen rnams bzhi ste rgyu dang ni/
dmigs pa dang ni de ma thag/
bdag po yang ni de bzhin te/
rkyen lnga pa ni yod ma yin//
2. There are four conditions: Causes, objects, immediate and dominant. There is no fifth.
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།དངོས་པོ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི།
།རྐྱེན་ལ་སོགས་པ་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།
།བདག་གི་དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་མིན་ན།
།གཞན་དངོས་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།
3. dngos po rnams kyi rang bzhin ni/
rkyen la sogs pa yod ma yin/
bdag gi dngos po yod min na/
gzhan dngos yod pa ma yin no//
3. The essence of things does not exist in conditions and so on. If an own thing does not exist, an other thing does not exist.
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།བྱ་བ་རྐྱེན་དང་ལྡན་པ་མེད།
།རྐྱེན་དང་མི་ལྡན་བྱ་བ་མེད།
།བྱ་བ་མི་ལྡན་རྐྱེན་མ་ཡིན།
།བྱ་བ་ལྡན་ཡོད་འོན་ཏེ་ན།།
4. bya ba rkyen dang ldan pa med/
rkyen dang mi ldan bya ba med/
bya ba mi ldan rkyen ma yin/
bya ba ldan yod 'on te na//
4. There is no activity which has conditions. There is no activity which does not have conditions. There are no conditions which do not have activity, and none which do have activity.
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།འདི་དག་ལ་བརྟན་སྐྱེ་བས་ན།
།དེ་ཕྱིར་འདི་དག་རྐྱེན་ཅེས་གྲག།
།ཅི་སྲིད་མི་སྐྱེ་དེ་སྲིད་དུ།
།འདི་དག་རྐྱེན་མིན་ཅི་ལྟར་མིན།།
5. 'di dag la brtan skye bas na/
de phyir 'di dag rkyen ces grag/
ci srid mi skye de srid du/
'di dag rkyen min ci ltar min//
5. Since something is born in dependence upon them, then they are known as "conditions". As long as it is not born, why are they not non-conditions?
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།མེད་དམ་ཡོད་པའི་དོན་ལ་ཡང།
།རྐྱེན་ནི་རུང་བ་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ།
།མེད་ན་གང་གི་རྐྱེན་དུ་འགྱུར།
།ཡོད་ན་རྐྱེན་གྱིས་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ།།
6. med dam yod pa'i don la yang/
rkyen ni rung ba ma yin te/
med na gang gi rkyen du 'gyur/
yod na rkyen gyis ci zhig bya//
6. It is impossible for something that either exists or not to have conditions. If it were non-existent, of what would these be the conditions? If it were existent, why would it need conditions?
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།གང་ཚེ་ཆོས་ནི་ཡོད་པ་དང།
།མེད་དང་ཡོད་མེད་མི་འགྲུབ་པས།
།ཅི་ལྟར་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ཞེས་བྱ།
།དེ་ལྟར་ཡིན་ན་མི་རིགས་སོ།།
7. gang tshe chos ni yod pa dang/
med dang yod med mi 'grub pas/
ci ltar sgrub byed rgyu zhes bya/
de ltar yin na mi rigs so//
7. When things cannot be established as either existent, non-existent or both, how can one speak of an "establishing cause." Such would be impossible.
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།ཡོད་པའི་ཆོས་འདི་དམིགས་པ་ནི།
།མེད་པ་ཁོ་ན་ཉེ་བར་བསྟན།
།ཅི་སྟེ་ཆོས་ནི་དམིགས་མེད་ན།
།དམིགས་པ་ཡོད་པར་ག་ལ་འགྱུར།།
8. yod pa'i chos 'di dmigs pa ni/
med pa kho na nye bar bstan/
ci ste chos ni dmigs med na/
dmigs pa yod par ga la 'gyur//
8. An existent phenomenon is clearly said to have no object at all. If the phenomenon has no object, where can the object exist?
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།ཆོས་རྣམས་སྐྱེས་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།
།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།
།དེ་ཕྱིར་དེ་མ་ཐག་མི་རིགས།
།འགགས་ན་རྐྱེན་ཡང་གང་ཞིག་ཡིན།།
9. chos rnams skyes pa ma yin na/
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/
de phyir de ma thag mi rigs/
'gags na rkyen yang gang zhig yin//
9. If phenomena are not born, it is invalid for there to be cessation. Therefore, an immediate [condition] is unreasonable. What, having ceased, can also be a condition?
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།དངོས་པོ་རང་བཞིན་མེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི།
།ཡོད་པ་གང་ཕྱིར་ཡོད་མིན་ན།
།འདི་ཡོད་པས་ན་འདི་འབྱུང་ཞེས།
།བྱ་བ་འདི་ནི་འཐད་མ་ཡིན།།
10. dngos po rang bzhin med rnams kyi/
yod pa gang phyir yod min na/
'di yod pas na 'di 'byung zhes/
bya ba 'di ni 'thad ma yin//
10. Because the existence of essence-less things does not exist, it is incorrect to say:"When this exists, that arises."
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།རྐྱེན་རྣམས་སོ་སོ་འདུས་པ་ལ།
།འབྲས་བུ་དེ་ནི་མེད་པ་ཉིད།
།རྐྱེན་རྣམས་ལ་ནི་གང་མེད་པ།
།དེ་ནི་རྐྱེན་ལས་ཅི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ།།
11. rkyen rnams so so 'dus pa la/
'bras bu de ni med pa nyid/
rkyen rnams la ni gang med pa/
de ni rkyen las ci ltar skye//
11. There is no effect at all in the conditions individually or together. How can that which is not in the conditions itself be born from conditions?
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།ཅི་སྟེ་འབྲས་བུ་དེ་མེད་ཀྱང།
།རྐྱེན་དེ་དག་ལས་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་ན།
།རྐྱེན་མིན་ལས་ཀྱང་འབྲས་བུ་ནི།
།ཅི་ཡི་ཕྱིར་ན་སྐྱེ་མི་འགྱུར།།
12. ci ste 'bras bu de med kyang/
rkyen de dag las skye 'gyur na/
rkyen min las kyang 'bras bu ni/
ci yi phyir na skye mi 'gyur//
12. If, although the effect is not there, it is born from those conditions, why is an effect not born from what are not its conditions?
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།འབྲས་བུ་རྐྱེན་གྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི།
།རྐྱེན་རྣམས་བདག་གི་རང་བཞིན་མིན།
།བདག་དངོས་མིན་ལས་འབྲས་བུ་གང།
།དེ་ནི་ཅི་ལྟར་རྐྱེན་རང་བཞིན།།
13. 'bras bu rkyen gyi rang bzhin ni/
rkyen rnams bdag gi rang bzhin min/
bdag dngos min las 'bras bu gang/
de ni ci ltar rkyen rang bzhin//
13. Effects [are of] the nature of conditions. Conditions do not have own nature. How can those effects of what does not have own nature [be of] the nature of conditions?
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།དེ་ཕྱིར་རྐྱེན་གྱི་རང་བཞིན་མིན།
།རྐྱེན་མིན་རང་བཞིན་འབྲས་བུ་ནི།
།ཡོད་མིན་འབྲས་བུ་མེད་བས་ན།
།རྐྱེན་མིན་རྐྱེན་དུ་ག་ལ་འགྱུར།།
14. de phyir rkyen gyi rang bzhin min/
rkyen min rang bzhin 'bras bu ni/
yod min 'bras bu med bas na/
rkyen min rkyen du ga la 'gyur//
14. Therefore, [it does] not have the nature of conditions, nor is there an effect with the nature of non-conditions. Since there is no effect, what could [be its] non-conditions or conditions?