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


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


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


1. gal te skye ba 'dus byas na/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ལ་མཚན་ཉིད་གསུམ་ལྡན་འགྱུར།</span><br>
de la mtshan nyid gsum ldan 'gyur/<br>
 
ci ste skye ba 'dus ma byas/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་སྟེ་སྐྱེ་བ་འདུས་མ་བྱས།</span><br>
ji ltar 'dus byas mtshan nyid yin/<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?
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>


2. skye la sogs gsum so so yis/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འདུས་བྱས་མཚན་ཉིད་བྱ་བར་ནི།</span><br>
'dus byas mtshan nyid bya bar ni/<br>
nus min gcig la dus gcig tu/<br>
'dus pa yang ni ji ltar rung/<br>


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


3. skye dang gnas dang 'jig rnams la/<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]?
'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 an other characteristic of being compounded, this would be endless. If not, they would not be compounded.
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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>


4. skye ba'i skye bas rtsa ba yi/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཡོད་ན་ཐུག་མེད་འགྱུར།</span><br>
skye ba 'ba' zhig skyed par byed/<br>
 
rtsa ba'i skye bas skye ba yi/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།མེད་ན་དེ་དག་འདུས་བྱས་མིན།།</span><br>
skye ba'ang skyed par byed pa yin/<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.
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>
5. [[gal te]] [[khyod kyi]] [[skye ba]]'i [[skyes]]/<br>
rtsa ba'i skye ba skyed byed na/<br>
[[rtsa ba'i skye ba]] [[skyed byed]] [[na]]/<br>
khyod kyi rtsa bas ma bskyed des/<br>
[[khyod kyi]] [[rtsa ba]]s [[ma]] [[bskyed]] [[des]]/<br>
de ni ji ltar skyed par byed/<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]?  
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>


6. gal te khyod kyi rtsa ba yis/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེས་མ་སྐྱེད་པའི་རྩ་བ་དེས།</span><br>
bskyed pa de yis rtsa skyed na/<br>
 
des ma bskyed pa'i rtsa ba des/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད།།</span><br>
de ni ji ltar skyed par byed/<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]?  
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>


7. gal te ma skyes pa de yis/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་སྐྱེད་པ་ནི་བྱེད་ནུས་ན།</span><br>
de skyed pa ni byed nus na/<br>
 
khyod kyi skye bzhin pa de yis/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ་དེ་ཡིས།</span><br>
de skyed par ni 'dod la rag/<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.
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 is incompatible with the style of the verses that precede and especially those that follow. Also cf. MMK 1: 7-9]
[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>
8. [[ji ltar]] [[mar me]] [[rang]] [[dang]] [[gzhan]]/<br>
snang bar byed pa de bzhin du/<br>
[[snang bar byed pa]] [[de bzhin du]]/<br>
skye ba'ang rang dang gzhan gyi dngos/<br>
[[skye ba]]'ang [[rang dang gzhan]] [[gyi]] [[dngos]]/<br>
gnyis ka skyed par byed pa yin/<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.
8. Just as lamplight illuminates itself and others, likewise birth too gives birth to both itself and the thing of others.


["itself and the thing of others" is the clumsy Tibetan form of svaparaatma, cf. svabhava / parabhava.]
([[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>


9. mar me dang ni gang dag na/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་འདུག་པ་ན་མུན་པ་མེད།</span><br>
de 'dug pa na mun pa med/<br>
mar mes ci zhig snang bar byed/<br>
mun pa sel bas snang byed yin/<br>


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


10. gang tshe mar me skye bzhin pa/<br>
9. Wherever lamplight is present there is no darkness. How does lamplight illuminate? It illuminates by dispelling darkness.
mun pa dang ni phrad med na/<br>
 
ji ltar mar me skye bzhin pas/<br>
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mun pa sel bar byed pa yin/<br>
 
<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?
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>


11. mar me phrad pa med par yang/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་མུན་པ་སེལ་བྱེད་ན།</span><br>
gal te mun pa sel byed na/<br>
 
'jig rten kun na gnas pa'i mun/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འཇིག་རྟེན་ཀuh་ན་གནས་པའི་མུན།</span><br>
'di na gnas pa des sel 'gyur/<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.
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>


12. mar me* rang dang gzhan gyi dngos/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་སྣང་བར་བྱེད་འགྱུར་ན།</span><br>
gal te snang bar byed 'gyur na/<br>
mun pa'ang rang dang gzhan gyi dngos/<br>
sgrib par 'gyur bar the tshom med/<br>


['''Ts.''' *mes]
<span class=TibUni18>།མུན་པའང་རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དངོས།</span><br>


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


13. skye ba 'di ni ma skyes pas/<br>
12. If lamplight illuminated itself and that of others, darkness too would without doubt obscure itself and the thing of others.
rang gi bdag nyid ji ltar skyed/<br>
 
ci ste skyes pas skyed byed na/<br>
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skyes na ci zhig bskyed du yod/<br>
 
<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?
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>


14. skyes dang ma skyes skye bzhin pa/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟ་བུར་ཡང་མི་སྐྱེད་པ།</span><br>
ji lta bur yang mi skyed pa/<br>
de ni song dang ma song dang/<br>
bgom pas rnam par bshad pa yin/<br>


14. The born and the unborn, the being born do not in any way give birth. That has been explained by the gone, not gone and going.
<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>


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


16. rten cing 'byung ba gang yin pa/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་དངོས་པོ་དེ།</span><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, that is by nature pacified. Therefore, being born and what is born too are pacified.
<span class=TibUni18>།མེད་ན་ཅི་ཞིག་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>


['''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)"]
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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17. gal te dngos po ma skyes pa/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ་དེ་ཡིས་ནི།</span><br>
'ga' zhig gang na yod gyur na/<br>
de ni skye 'gyur dngos po de/<br>
med na ci zhig skye bar 'gyur/<br>


17. If any unborn thing existed anywhere, on being born that [unborn] thing would not exist. If so, what would be born?
<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>
18. [[gal te]] [[skye ba]] [[de]] [[yis]] [[ni]]/<br>
skye bzhin pa ni skyed byed na/<br>
[[skye bzhin pa]] [[ni]] [[skyed byed]] [[na]]/<br>
skye ba de ni skye ba lta/<br>
[[skye ba]] [[de ni]] [[skye ba]] [[lta]]/<br>
gang zhig gis ni skyed par byed/<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?
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>


19. gal te skye ba gzhan zhig gis/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་སྐྱེད་ཐུག་པ་མེད་པར་འགྱུར།</span><br>
de skyed thug pa med par 'gyur/<br>
 
ci ste skye ba med skye na/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་སྟེ་སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་སྐྱེ་ན།</span><br>
thams cad de bzhin skye bar 'gyur/<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].
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>


20. re zhig yod dang med pa yang/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བར་རིགས་པ་མ་ཡིན་ཞིང།</span><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 not reasonable for what exists or does not exist to be born. It has been shown above that there is no existent or non-existent.
<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>


21. dngos po 'gag bzhin nyid la ni/<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.
skye ba 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/<br>
 
gang zhig 'gag bzhin ma yin pa/<br>
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de ni dngos por mi 'thad do/<br>
 
<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.
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>
22. [[dngos po]] [[gnas pa]] [[mi gnas]] [[te]]/<br>
dngos po mi gnas gnas pa min/<br>
[[dngos po]] [[mi gnas]] [[gnas pa]] [[min]]/<br>
gnas bzhin pa yang mi gnas te/<br>
[[gnas bzhin pa]] [[yang]] [[mi gnas]] [[te]]/<br>
ma skyes gang zhig gnas par 'gyur/<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?  
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>


23. dngos po 'gag bzhin nyid la ni/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ཞིག་འགག་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་པ།</span><br>
gnas pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/<br>
 
gang zhig 'gag bzhin ma yin pa/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་དངོས་པོར་མི་འཐད་དོ།།</span><br>
de ni dngos por mi 'thad do/<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.
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>


24. dngos po thams cad dus kun tu/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།རྒ་དང་འཆི་བའི་ཆོས་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>
rga dang 'chi ba'i chos yin na/<br>
 
gang dag rga dang 'chi med par/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གང་དག་རྒ་དང་འཆི་མེད་པར།</span><br>
gnas pa'i dngos po gang zhig yod/<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?
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>
25. [[gnas pa]] [[gnas pa]] [[gzhan]] [[dang]] [[ni]]/<br>
de nyid kyis kyang gnas mi rigs/<br>
[[de nyid]] [[kyis]] [[kyang]] [[gnas mi]] [[rigs]]/<br>
ji ltar skye ba rang dang ni/<br>
[[ji ltar]] [[skye ba]] [[rang]] [[dang]] [[ni]]/<br>
gzhan gyis bskyed pa ma yin bzhin/<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 not given birth to by itself or another. [cf. v.18-19]
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>


26. 'gags pa 'gag par mi 'gyur te/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།མ་འགགས་པ་ཡང་འགག་མི་འགྱུར།</span><br>
ma 'gags pa yang 'gag mi 'gyur/<br>
 
'gag bzhin pa yang de bzhin min/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་བཞིན་པ་ཡང་དེ་བཞིན་མིན།</span><br>
ma skyes gang zhig 'gag par 'gyur/<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]
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>


27. re zhig dngos po gnas pa la/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།།</span><br>
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/<br>
 
dngos po mi gnas pa la yang/<br>
27. [[re zhig]] [[dngos po]] [[gnas pa]] [[la]]/<br>
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/<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.
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.
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[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."]
[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>


28. gnas skabs de yis gnas skabs ni/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཉིད་འགག་པ་ཉིད་མི་འགྱུར།</span><br>
de nyid 'gag pa nyid mi 'gyur/<br>
 
gnas skabs gzhan gyis gnas skabs ni/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གནས་སྐབས་གཞན་གྱིས་གནས་སྐབས་ནི།</span><br>
gzhan yang 'gag pa nyid mi 'gyur/<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.
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.
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['''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.]
['''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>


29. gang tshe chos rnams thams cad kyi/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་བ།</span><br>
skye ba 'thad par mi 'gyur ba/<br>
 
de tshe chos rnams thams cad kyi/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཚེ་ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི།</span><br>
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/<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.
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>


30. re zhig dngos po yod pa la/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གཅིག་ཉིད་ན་ནི་དངོས་པོ་དང།</span><br>
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/<br>
 
gcig nyid na ni dngos po dang/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་མེད་པ་འཐད་པ་མེད།།</span><br>
dngos po med pa 'thad pa med/<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.
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>


31. dngos po med par gyur pa la'ang/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br>
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/<br>
 
mgo gnyis pa la ji ltar ni/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།མགོ་གཉིས་པ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་ནི།</span><br>
gcad du med pa de bzhin no/<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]
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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32. 'gag pa rang gi bdag nyid kyis/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་དང་གནས་དང་འཇིག་པ་དག།</span><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 not given birth to by itself or another [cf. 25]
<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>
33. [[skye]] [[dang]] [[gnas]] [[dang]] [['jig pa]] [[dag]]/<br>
ma grub phyir na 'dus byas med/<br>
[[ma grub]] [[phyir na]] [['dus byas]] [[med]]/<br>
'dus byas rab tu ma grub pas/<br>
[['dus byas]] [[rab tu]] [[ma grub pa]]s/<br>
'dus ma byas ni ji ltar 'grub/<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?
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>
34. [[rmi lam]] [[ji bzhin]] [[sgyu ma]] [[bzhin]]/<br>
dri za'i grong khyer ji bzhin du/<br>
[[dri za'i grong khyer]] [[ji bzhin du]]/<br>
de bzhin skye dang de bzhin gnas/<br>
[[de bzhin]] [[skye]] [[dang]] [[de bzhin gnas]]/<br>
de bzhin du ni 'jig pa gsungs/<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.
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>
[[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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Chapter 7. Investigation of Birth, Abiding and Perishing

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

(Birth)

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།གལ་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ་འདུས་བྱས་ན།

།དེ་ལ་མཚན་ཉིད་གསུམ་ལྡན་འགྱུར།

།ཅི་སྟེ་སྐྱེ་བ་འདུས་མ་བྱས།

།ཇི་ལྟར་འདུས་བྱས་མཚན་ཉིད་ཡིན།།

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

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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།སྐྱེ་ལ་སོགས་གསུམ་སོ་སོ་ཡིས།

།འདུས་བྱས་མཚན་ཉིད་བྱ་བར་ནི།

།ནུས་མིན་གཅིག་ལ་དུས་གཅིག་ཏུ།

།འདུས་པ་ཡང་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་རུང།།

2. skye la sogs gsum so so yis/
'dus byas mtshan nyid bya bar ni/
nus min gcig la dus gcig tu/
'dus pa yang ni ji ltar rung//

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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།སྐྱེ་དང་གནས་དང་འཇིགརྣམས་ལ།

།འདུས་བྱས་མཚན་ཉིད་གཞན་ཞིག་ནི།

།གལ་ཏེ་ཡོད་ན་ཐུག་མེད་འགྱུར།

།མེད་ན་དེ་དག་འདུས་བྱས་མིན།།

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

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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།སྐྱེ་བའི་སྐྱེ་བས་རྩ་བ་ཡི།

།སྐྱེ་བ་འབའ་ཞིག་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད།

།རྩ་བའི་སྐྱེ་བས་སྐྱེ་བ་ཡི།

།སྐྱེ་བའང་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད་པ་ཡིན།།

4. skye ba'i skye bas rtsa ba yi/
skye ba 'ba' zhig skyed par byed/
rtsa ba'i skye bas skye ba yi/
skye ba'ang skyed par byed pa yin//

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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།གལ་ཏེ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་བའི་སྐྱེས།

།རྩ་བའི་སྐྱེ་བ་སྐྱེད་བྱེད་ན།

།ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་རྩ་བས་མ་བསྐྱེད་དེས།

།དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད།།

5. gal te khyod kyi skye ba'i skyes/
rtsa ba'i skye ba skyed byed na/
khyod kyi rtsa bas ma bskyed des/
de ni ji ltar skyed par byed//

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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།གལ་ཏེ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་རྩ་བ་ཡིས།

།བསྐྱེད་པ་དེ་ཡིས་རྩ་སྐྱེད་ན།

།དེས་མ་སྐྱེད་པའི་རྩ་བ་དེས།

།དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད།།

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

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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།གལ་ཏེ་མ་སྐྱེས་པ་དེ་ཡིས།

།དེ་སྐྱེད་པ་ནི་བྱེད་ནུས་ན།

།ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ་དེ་ཡིས།

།དེ་སྐྱེད་པར་ནི་འདོད་ལ་རག།།

7. gal te ma skyes pa de yis/
de skyed pa ni byed nus na/
khyod kyi skye bzhin pa de yis/
de skyed par ni 'dod la rag//

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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།ཇི་ལྟར་མར་མེ་རང་དང་གཞན།

།སྣང་བར་བྱེད་པ་དེ་བཞིན་དུ།

།སྐྱེ་བའང་རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དངོས།

།གཉིས་ཀ་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད་པ་ཡིན།།

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

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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།མར་མེ་དང་ནི་གང་དག་ན།

།དེ་འདུག་པ་ན་མུན་པ་མེད།

།མར་མེས་ཅི་ཞིག་སྣང་བར་བྱེད།

།མུན་པ་སེལ་བས་སྣང་བྱེད་ཡིན།།

9. mar me dang ni gang dag na/
de 'dug pa na mun pa med/
mar mes ci zhig snang bar byed/
mun pa sel bas snang byed yin//

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

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།གང་ཚེ་མར་མེ་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ།

།མུན་པ་དང་ནི་ཕྲད་མེད་ན།

།ཇི་ལྟར་མར་མེ་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པས།

།མུན་པ་སེལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་ཡིན།།

10. gang tshe mar me skye bzhin pa/
mun pa dang ni phrad med na/
ji ltar mar me skye bzhin pas/
mun pa sel bar byed pa yin//

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

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།མར་མེ་ཕྲད་པ་མེད་པར་ཡང།

།གལ་ཏེ་མུན་པ་སེལ་བྱེད་ན།

།འཇིག་རྟེན་ཀuh་ན་གནས་པའི་མུན།

།འདི་ན་གན་པ་དེས་སེལ་འགྱུར།།

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

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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།མར་མེ་*རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དངོས།

།གལ་ཏེ་སྣང་བར་བྱེད་འགྱུར་ན།

།མུན་པའང་རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དངོས།

།སྒྲིབ་པར་འགྱུར་བར་ཐེ་ཚོམ་མེད།།

12. mar me* rang dang gzhan gyi dngos/
gal te snang bar byed 'gyur na/
mun pa'ang rang dang gzhan gyi dngos/
sgrib par 'gyur bar the tshom med//

[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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།སྐྱེ་བ་འདི་ནི་མ་སྐྱེས་པས།

།རང་གི་བདག་ཉིད་ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེད།

།ཅི་སྟེ་སྐྱེས་པས་སྐྱེད་བྱེད་ན།

།སྐྱེས་ན་ཅི་ཞིག་བསྐྱེད་དུ་ཡོད།།

13. skye ba 'di ni ma skyes pas/
rang gi bdag nyid ji ltar skyed/
ci ste skyes pas skyed byed na/
skyes na ci zhig bskyed du yod//

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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།སྐྱེས་དང་མ་སྐྱེས་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ།

།ཇི་ལྟ་བུར་ཡང་མི་སྐྱེད་པ།

།དེ་ནི་སོང་དང་མ་སོང་དང།

།བགོམ་པས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཡིན།།

14. skyes dang ma skyes skye bzhin pa/
ji lta bur yang mi skyed pa/
de ni song dang ma song dang/
bgom pas rnam par bshad pa yin//

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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།གང་ཚེ་སྐྱེ་བ་ཡོད་པ་ན།

།སྐྱེ་བཞིན་འདི་འབྱུང་མེད་པའི་ཚེ།

།ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་ནི།

།སྐྱེ་བཞིན་ཞེས་ནི་བརྗོད་པར་བྱ།།

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

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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།རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྱུང་བ་གང་ཡིན་པ།

།དེ་ནི་ངོ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ཞི།

།དེ་ཕྱིར་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དང་ནི།

།སྐྱེ་བ་ཡང་ནི་ཞི་བ་ཉིད།།

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

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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།གལ་ཏེ་དངོས་པོ་མ་སྐྱེས་པ།

།འགའ་ཞིག་གང་ན་ཡོད་གྱུར་ན།

།དེ་ནི་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་དངོས་པོ་དེ།

།མེད་ན་ཅི་ཞིག་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར།།

17. gal te dngos po ma skyes pa/
'ga' zhig gang na yod gyur na/
de ni skye 'gyur dngos po de/
med na ci zhig skye bar 'gyur//

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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།གལ་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ་དེ་ཡིས་ནི།

།སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ་ནི་སྐྱེད་བྱེད་ན།

།སྐྱེ་བ་དེ་ནི་སྐྱེ་བ་ལྟ།

།གང་ཞིག་གིས་ནི་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད།།

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

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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།གལ་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ་གཞན་ཞིག་གིས།

།དེ་སྐྱེད་ཐུག་པ་མེད་པར་འགྱུར།

།ཅི་སྟེ་སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་སྐྱེ་ན།

།ཐམས་ཅད་དེ་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར།།

19. gal te skye ba gzhan zhig gis/
de skyed thug pa med par 'gyur/
ci ste skye ba med skye na/
thams cad de bzhin skye bar 'gyur//

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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།རེ་ཞིག་ཡོད་དང་མེད་པ་ཡང།

།སྐྱེ་བར་རིགས་པ་མ་ཡིན་ཞིང།

།ཡོད་མེད་ཉིད་ཀྱང་མ་ཡིན་ཞེས།

།གོང་དུ་བསྟན་པ་ཉིད་ཡིན་ནོ།།

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

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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།དངོས་པོ་འགག་བཞིན་ཉིད་ལ་ནི།

།སྐྱེ་བ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།

།གང་ཞིག་འགག་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་པ།

།དེ་ནི་དངོས་པོར་མི་འཐད་དོ།།

21. dngos po 'gag bzhin nyid la ni/
skye ba 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/
gang zhig 'gag bzhin ma yin pa/
de ni dngos por mi 'thad do//

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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།དངོས་པོ་གནས་པ་མི་གནས་ཏེ།

།དངོས་པོ་མི་གནས་གནས་པ་མིན།

།གནས་བཞིན་པ་ཡང་མི་གནས་ཏེ།

།མ་སྐྱེས་གང་ཞིག་གནས་པར་འགྱུར།།

22. dngos po gnas pa mi gnas te/
dngos po mi gnas gnas pa min/
gnas bzhin pa yang mi gnas te/
ma skyes gang zhig gnas par 'gyur//

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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།དངོས་པོ་འགག་བཞིན་ཉིད་ལ་ནི།

།གནས་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།

།གང་ཞིག་འགག་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་པ།

།དེ་ནི་དངོས་པོར་མི་འཐད་དོ།།

23. dngos po 'gag bzhin nyid la ni/
gnas pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/
gang zhig 'gag bzhin ma yin pa/
de ni dngos por mi 'thad do//

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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།དངོས་པོ་ཐམས་ཅད་དུས་ཀུན་ཏུ།

།རྒ་དང་འཆི་བའི་ཆོས་ཡིན་ན།

།གང་དག་རྒ་དང་འཆི་མེད་པར།

།གནས་པའི་དངོས་པོ་གང་ཞིག་ཡོད།།

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

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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།གནས་པ་གནས་པ་གཞན་དང་ནི།

།དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་གནས་མི་རིགས།

།ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ་བ་རང་དང་ནི།

།གཞན་གྱིས་བསྐྱེད་པ་མ་ཡིན་བཞིན།།

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

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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།འགགས་པ་འགག་པར་མི་འགྱུར་ཏེ།

།མ་འགགས་པ་ཡང་འགག་མི་འགྱུར།

།འགག་བཞིན་པ་ཡང་དེ་བཞིན་མིན།

།མ་སྐྱེས་གང་ཞིག་འགག་པར་འགྱུར།།

26. 'gags pa 'gag par mi 'gyur te/
ma 'gags pa yang 'gag mi 'gyur/
'gag bzhin pa yang de bzhin min/
ma skyes gang zhig 'gag par 'gyur//

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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།རེ་ཞིག་དངོས་པོ་གནས་པ་ལ།

།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།

།དངོས་པོ་མི་གནས་པ་ལ་ཡང།

།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།།

27. re zhig dngos po gnas pa la/
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/
dngos po mi gnas pa la yang/
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro//

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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།གནས་སྐབས་དེ་ཡིས་གནས་སྐབས་ནི།

།དེ་ཉིད་འགག་པ་ཉིད་མི་འགྱུར།

།གནས་སྐབས་གཞན་གྱིས་གནས་སྐབས་ནི།

།གཞན་ཡང་འགག་པ་ཉིད་མི་འགྱུར།།

28. gnas skabs de yis gnas skabs ni/
de nyid 'gag pa nyid mi 'gyur/
gnas skabs gzhan gyis gnas skabs ni/
gzhan yang 'gag pa nyid mi 'gyur//

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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།གང་ཚེ་ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད།

།སྐྱེ་བ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་བ།

།དེ་ཚེ་ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི།

།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།།

29. gang tshe chos rnams thams cad kyi/
skye ba 'thad par mi 'gyur ba/
de tshe chos rnams thams cad kyi/
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro//

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

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།རེ་ཞིག་དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་ལ།

།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།

།གཅིག་ཉིད་ན་ནི་དངོས་པོ་དང།

།དངོས་པོ་མེད་པ་འཐད་པ་མེད།།

30. re zhig dngos po yod pa la/
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/
gcig nyid na ni dngos po dang/
dngos po med pa 'thad pa med//

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

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།དངོས་པོ་མེད་པར་གྱུར་པ་ལའང།

།འགག་པ་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།

།མགོ་གཉིས་པ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་ནི།

།གཅད་དུ་མེད་པ་དེ་བཞིན་ནོ།།

31. dngos po med par gyur pa la'ang/
'gag pa 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/
mgo gnyis pa la ji ltar ni/
gcad du med pa de bzhin no//

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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།འགག་པ་རང་གི་བདག་ཉིད་ཀྱིས།

།ཡོད་མིན་འགག་པ་གཞན་གྱིས་མིན།

།ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ་བ་རང་དང་ནི།

།གཞན་གྱིས་སྐྱེད་པ་མ་ཡིན་བཞིན།།

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

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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།སྐྱེ་དང་གནས་དང་འཇིག་པ་དག།

།མ་གྲུབ་ཕྱིར་ན་འདུས་བྱས་མེད།

།འདུས་བྱས་རབ་ཏུ་མ་གྲུབ་པས།

།འདུས་མ་བྱས་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་འགྲུབ།།

33. skye dang gnas dang 'jig pa dag/
ma grub phyir na 'dus byas med/
'dus byas rab tu ma grub pas/
'dus ma byas ni ji ltar 'grub//

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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།རྨི་ལམ་ཇི་བཞིན་སྒྱུ་མ་བཞིན།

།དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ཇི་བཞིན་དུ།

།དེ་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་དང་དེ་བཞིན་གནས།

།དེ་བཞིན་དུ་ནི་འཇིག་པ་གསུངས།།

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

34. Like a dream, like a magician's illusion, like a city of gandharvas, likewise birth and likewise remaining, likewise perishing are taught.

།སྐྱེ་བ་དང་གནས་པ་དང་འཇིག་པ་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་བདུན་པའོ།།

skye ba dang gnas pa dang 'jig pa brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa bdun pa'o//

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