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'''10. Investigation of Fire and Firewood'''
'''Chapter 10. Investigation of Fire and Firewood'''
 
'''''(Fire)''''' - ([[kun skyobs]]) here meaning as all consuming...and not necessarily as ([[me]]), one of [[khams lnga]], the five elements)
 
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'''''(Fire)'''''
<span class=TibUni18>།བུད་ཤིང་གང་དེ་མེ་ཡིམ་ན།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།བྱེད་པ་པོ་དང་ལས་གཅིག་འགྱུར།།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།གཻ་ཏེ་ཤིག་ལས་མེ་གཞན་ན།</span><br>


1. bud shing gang de me yin na /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཤིང་མེད་པར་ཡང་འབྱུང་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
byed pa po dang las gcig 'gyur /<br>
 
gal te shing las me gzhan na /<br>
1. [[bud shing]] [[gang de]] [[me]] [[yin na]]/<br>
shing med par yang 'byung bar 'gyur /<br>
[[byed pa po]] [[dang la]]s [[gcig 'gyur]]/<br>
[[gal te]] [[shing]] [[las]] [[me]] [[gzhan na]]/<br>
[[shing]] [[med par]] [[yang]] [['byung ba]]r [['gyur]]//


1. If firewood were fire, actor and act would be one. If fire were other than wood, it would occur even without wood.  
1. If firewood were fire, actor and act would be one. If fire were other than wood, it would occur even without wood.  


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<span class=TibUni18>།རྟག་ཏུ་འབར་བ་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།</span><br>


2. rtag tu 'bar ba nyid du 'gyur /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འབར་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ལས་མི་འབྱུང་ཞིང།</span><br>
'bar byed rgyu las mi 'byung zhing /<br>
 
rtsom pa don med nyid du 'gyur /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།རྩོམ་པ་དོན་མེད་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།</span><br>
de lta yin na las kyang med /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ལྟ་ཡིན་ན་ལས་ཀྱང་མེད།།</span><br>
 
2. [[rtag tu]] [['bar ba]] [[nyid du]] [['gyur]]/<br>
[['bar byed]] [[rgyu la]]s [[mi 'byung]] [[zhing]]/<br>
[[rtsom pa]] [[don med]] [[nyid du]] [['gyur]]/<br>
[[de lta]] [[yin na]] [[las kyang]] [[med]]//


2. [Fire] would burn permanently and would not arise from causes for burning. Starting [a fire] would be meaningless. If it were like that, there would also be no act.
2. [Fire] would burn permanently and would not arise from causes for burning. Starting [a fire] would be meaningless. If it were like that, there would also be no act.


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<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་ལ་ལྟོས་པ་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར།</span><br>


3. gzhan la ltos pa med pa'i phyir /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འབར་བར་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ལས་མི་འབྱུང།</span><br>
'bar bar byed rgyu las mi 'byung /<br>
 
rtag tu 'bar ba yin na ni /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།རྟག་ཏུ་འབར་བ་ཡིན་ན་ནི།</span><br>
rtsom pa don med nyid du 'gyur /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།རྩོམ་པ་དོན་མེད་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
 
3. [[gzhan la]] [[ltos pa med pa]]'i [[phyir]]/<br>
[['bar ba]]r [[byed rgyu]] [[las mi 'byung]]/<br>
[[rtag tu]] [['bar ba]] [[yin na]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[rtsom pa]] [[don med]] [[nyid du]] [['gyur]]//


3. Because [fire] does not depend on anything else, it would not arise from causes for burning. If it burned permanently, starting it would be meaningless.
3. Because [fire] does not depend on anything else, it would not arise from causes for burning. If it burned permanently, starting it would be meaningless.


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<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ལ་གལ་ཏེ་འདི་སྙམ་དུ།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྲེག་བཞིན་བུད་ཤིང་ཡིན་སེམས་ན།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ཚེ་དེ་ཙམ་དེ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།གང་གིས་བུད་ཤིང་དེ་སྲེག་བྱེད།།</span><br>


4. de la gal te 'di snyam du /<br>
4. [[de la]] [[gal te]] [['di]] [[snyam du]]/<br>
sreg bzhin bud shing yin sems na /<br>
[[sreg]] [[bzhin]] [[bud shing]] [[yin]] [[sems na]]/<br>
gang tshe de tsam de yin na /<br>
[[gang tshe]] [[de tsam]] [[de yin na]]/<br>
gang gis bud shing de sreg byed /<br>
[[gang gis]] [[bud shing]] [[de]] [[sreg byed]]//


4. Concerning this, if one thinks that while burning it is firewood, if it is such only at that time, by what could that firewood be ignited?
4. Concerning this, if one thinks that while burning it is firewood, if it is such only at that time, by what could that firewood be ignited?


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<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་ཕྱིར་མི་ཕྲད་ཕྲད་མེད་ན།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྲེག་པར་མི་འགྱུར་མི་སྲེག་ན།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འཆི་བར་མི་འགྱུར་མི་འཆི་ན།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།རང་རྟགས་དང་ཡང་ལྡན་པར་གནས།།</span><br>


5. gzhan phyir mi phrad phrad med na /<br>
5. [[gzhan]] [[phyir]] [[mi]] [[phrad phrad]] [[med na]]/<br>
sreg par mi 'gyur mi sreg na /<br>
[[sreg pa]]r [[mi 'gyur]] [[mi]] [[sreg]] [[na]]/<br>
'chi bar mi 'gyur mi 'chi na /<br>
[['chi ba]]r [[mi 'gyur]] [[mi]] [['chi]] [[na]]/<br>
rang rtags dang yang ldan par gnas /<br>
[[rang rtags]] [[dang]] [[yang]] [[ldan par]] [[gnas]]//


5. Because [fire] is other, it would not connect; if it did not connect, it would not ignite; if it did not ignite, it would not die; if it did not die, it would also remain in possession of its own characteristic.
5. Because [fire] is other, it would not connect; if it did not connect, it would not ignite; if it did not ignite, it would not die; if it did not die, it would also remain in possession of its own characteristic.


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<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟར་བུད་མེད་སྐྱེས་པ་དང།</span><br>


6. ji ltar bud med skyes pa dang /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེས་པའང་བུད་མེད་ཕྲད་པ་བཞི།</span><br>
skyes pa'ang bud med phrad pa bzhin /<br>
 
gal te shing las me gzhan yang /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཤིང་ལས་མེ་གཞན་ཡང།</span><br>
shing dang phrad du** rung bar 'gyur /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།ཤིང་དང་ཕྲད་དུ་རུང་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
 
6. [[ji ltar]] [[bud med]] [[skyes pa]] [[dang]]/<br>
[[skyes pa]]'ang [[bud med]] [[phrad pa]] [[bzhi]]/<br>
[[gal te]] [[shing]] [[las]] [[me]] [[gzhan yang]]/<br>
[[shing]] [[dang]] [[phrad]] [[du]]** [[rung bar 'gyur]]//


6. Just as a woman connects with a man and a man too with a woman, although fire is other than wood, it is fit to connect with wood.
6. Just as a woman connects with a man and a man too with a woman, although fire is other than wood, it is fit to connect with wood.


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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་མེ་དང་ཤིང་དག་ནི།</span><br>


7. gal te me dang shing dag ni /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གཅིག་གིས་གཅིག་ནི་བསལ་གྱུར་ན།</span><br>
gcig gis gcig ni bsal gyur na /<br>
 
shing las me gzhan nyid yin yang /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཤིང་ལས་མེ་གཞན་ཉིད་ཡིན་ཡང།</span><br>
shing dang phrad par 'dod la rag /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།ཤིང་དང་ཕྲད་པར་འདོད་ལ་རག།།</span><br>
 
7. [[gal te]] [[me]] [[dang]] [[shing]] [[dag]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[gcig gis gcig]] [[ni]] [[bsal]] [[gyur na]]/<br>
[[shing]] [[las]] [[me]] [[gzhan nyid]] [[yin yang]]/<br>
[[shing]] [[dang phrad pa]]r [['dod]] [[la]] [[rag]]//


7. If fire and wood eliminated each other, even though fire is something other than wood, it would have to connect with wood.
7. If fire and wood eliminated each other, even though fire is something other than wood, it would have to connect with wood.


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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཤིང་ལྟོས་མེ་ཡིན་ལ།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་མེ་ལྟོས་ཤིང་ཡིན་ན་།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ལྟོས་མེ་དང་ཤིང་འགྱུར་བ།</span><br>


8. gal te shing ltos me yin la /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དང་པོར་གྲུབ་པ་གང་ཞིག་ཡིན།།</span><br>
gal te me ltos shing yin na /<br>
 
gang ltos me dang shing 'gyur ba /<br>
8. [[gal te]] [[shing]] [[ltos]] [[me]] [[yin la]]/<br>
dang por grub pa gang zhig yin /<br>
[[gal te]] [[me]] [[ltos]] [[shing]] [[yin na]]/<br>
[[gang]] [[ltos]] [[me]] [[dang]] [[shing]] [['gyur ba]]/<br>
[[dang por]] [[grub pa]] [[gang zhig]] [[yin]]//


8. If fire were dependent on wood and wood were dependent on fire, of what becomes fire and wood dependently, which would be established first?
8. If fire were dependent on wood and wood were dependent on fire, of what becomes fire and wood dependently, which would be established first?


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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཤིང་ལྟོས་མེ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>


9. gal te shing ltos me yin na /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།མེ་གྲུབ་པ་ལ་སྒྲུབ་པར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
me grub pa la sgrub par 'gyur /<br>
 
bud par bya ba'i shing la yang /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།བུད་པར་བྱ་བའི་ཤིང་ལ་ཡང།</span><br>
me med par ni 'gyur pa yin /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མེ་མེད་པར་ནི་འགྱུར་པ་ཡིན།</span><br>
 
9. [[gal te]] [[shing]] [[ltos]] [[me]] [[yin na]]/<br>
[[me]] [[grub pa la sgrub pa]]r [['gyur]]/<br>
[[bud pa]]r [[bya ba]]'i [[shing]] [[la yang]]/<br>
[[me]] [[med par]] [[ni]] [['gyur]] [[pa yin]]//


9. If fire were dependent on wood, [already] established fire would be established [again]. Firewood also would be [such] even without fire.
9. If fire were dependent on wood, [already] established fire would be established [again]. Firewood also would be [such] even without fire.


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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་དངོས་པོ་གང་ལྟོས་འགྲུབ།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཉིད་ལ་ཡ་ལྟོས་ནས་ནི།</span><br>


10. gal te dngos po gang ltos 'grub /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ལྟོས་བྱ་གང་ཡིན་དེ་འགྲུབ་ན།</span><br>
de nyid la yang ltos nas ni /<br>
 
ltos bya gang yin de 'grub na /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ལ་ལྟོས་ནས་གང་ཞིག་འགྲུབ།།</span><br>
gang la ltos nas gang zhig 'grub /<br>
 
10. [[gal te]] [[dngos po]] [[gang]] [[ltos]] [['grub]]/<br>
[[de nyid]] [[la]] [[ya]] [[ltos nas]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[ltos]] [[bya]] [[gang yin]] [[de]] [['grub]] [[na]]/<br>
[[gang la]] [[ltos nas]] [[gang zhig]] [['grub]]//


10. If a thing (A) is established dependently (on B), [but] if what it depends upon (B) is established also in dependence on that very thing (A), what would be established in dependence on what?
10. If a thing (A) is established dependently (on B), [but] if what it depends upon (B) is established also in dependence on that very thing (A), what would be established in dependence on what?


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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ལྟོས་གྲུབ་གང་ཡིན་པ།</span><br>


11. dngos po ltos grub gang yin pa /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་མ་གྲུབ་ན་ཇི་ལྟར་ལྟོས།</span><br>
de ma grub na ji ltar ltos /<br>
 
ci ste grub pa ltos she na /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཅི་སྟེ་གྲུབ་པ་ལྟོས་ཤེ་ན།</span><br>
de ni ltos par mi rigs so /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་ལྟོས་པར་མི་རིགས་སོ།།</span><br>
 
11. [[dngos po]] [[ltos grub]] [[gang yin pa]]/<br>
[[de ma]] [[grub]] [[na]] [[ji ltar]] [[ltos]]/<br>
[[ci ste]] [[grub pa]] [[ltos]] [[she na]]/<br>
[[de ni]] [[ltos par]] [[mi rigs]] [[so]]//


11. How can a thing (A) which is established dependently (on B) be dependent (on B) when it (A) is not established? If one asks, "how can establishment be dependent?" It is not reasonable for it (A) to be dependent.
11. How can a thing (A) which is established dependently (on B) be dependent (on B) when it (A) is not established? If one asks, "how can establishment be dependent?" It is not reasonable for it (A) to be dependent.


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<span class=TibUni18>།ཤིང་ལ་ལྟོས་པའི་མེ་མེད་དེ།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཤིང་ལ་མ་ལྟོས་མེ་ཡང་མེད།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།མེ་ལ་ལྟོས་པའི་ཤིང་མེད་དེ།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།མེ་ལ་མ་ལྟོས་ཤིང་ཡང་མེད།།</span><br>


12. shing la ltos pa'i me med de /<br>
12. [[shing]] [[la ltos pa]]'i [[me]] [[med]] [[de]]/<br>
shing la ma ltos me yang med /<br>
[[shing]] [[la ma]] [[ltos]] [[me]] [[yang med]]/<br>
me la ltos pa'i shing med de /<br>
[[me la]] [[ltos pa'i]] [[shing[[ [[med]] [[de]]/<br>
me la ma ltos shing yang med /<br>
[[me la]] [[ma]] [[ltos]] [[shing]] [[yang med]]//


12. There is no fire that is dependent on wood; there is also no fire that is not dependent on wood. There is no wood that is dependent on fire; there is also no wood that is not dependent on fire.
12. There is no fire that is dependent on wood; there is also no fire that is not dependent on wood. There is no wood that is dependent on fire; there is also no wood that is not dependent on fire.


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<span class=TibUni18>།མེ་ནི་གཞན་ལས་མི་འོང་སྟེ།</span><br>


13. me ni gzhan las mi 'ong ste /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཤིང་ལའང་མེ་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།></span><br>
shing la'ang me ni yod ma yin /<br>
 
de bzhin shing gi lhag ma ni /<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་བཞིན་ཤིང་གི་ལྷག་མ་ནི།</span><br>
song dang ma song bgom pas bstan /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།སོང་དང་མ་སོང་བགོམ་པས་བསྟན།།</span><br>
 
13. [[me]] [[ni]] [[gzhan las]] [[mi 'ong]] [[ste]]/<br>
[[shing]] [[la'ang]] [[me]] [[ni]] [[yod ma yin]]/<br>
[[de bzhin]] [[shing]] [[gi]] [[lhag ma]] [[ni]]/<br>
[[song]] [[dang]] [[ma song]] [[bgom pa]]s [[bstan]]//


13. Fire does not come from something else; fire also does not exist in wood. Likewise, the remainder of wood has been shown by gone, not-gone and going.
13. Fire does not come from something else; fire also does not exist in wood. Likewise, the remainder of wood has been shown by gone, not-gone and going.


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<span class=TibUni18>།ཤིང་ཉིད་མེ་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཤིང་ལས་གཞན་པ་མེ་ཡང་མེད།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།མེ་ནི་ཤིང་དང་ལྡན་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།མེ་ལ་ཤིང་མེད་དེར་དེ་མེད།།</span><br>


14. shing nyid me ni ma yin te /<br>
14. [[shing]] [[nyid]] [[me]] [[ni]] [[ma yin te]]/<br>
shing las gzhan pa me yang med /<br>
[[shing]] [[las gzhan pa]] [[me]] [[yang med]]/<br>
me ni shing dang ldan ma yin /<br>
[[me]] [[ni]] [[shing]] [[dang ldan]] [[ma yin]]/<br>
me la shing med der de med /<br>
[[me la]] [[shing]] [[med]] [[der]] [[de]] [[med]]//


14. Wood itself is not fire; fire is also not something other than wood. Fire does not possess wood; wood does not exist in fire; that (fire) does not exist in it.
14. Wood itself is not fire; fire is also not something other than wood. Fire does not possess wood; wood does not exist in fire; that (fire) does not exist in it.


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<span class=TibUni18>།མེ་དང་ཤིང་གིས་བདག་དང་ནི།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པའི་རིམ་པ་ཀུན།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།བུམ་སྣམ་སོགས་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།མ་ལུས་པར་ནི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད།།</span><br>


15. me dang shing gis bdag dang ni /<br>
15. [[me]] [[dang]] [[shing]] [[gis]] [[bdag]] [[dang]] [[ni]]/<br>
nye bar len pa'i rim pa kun /<br>
[[nye bar len pa'i]] [[rim pa]] [[kun]]/<br>
bum snam sogs dang lhan cig tu /<br>
[[bum]] [[snam]] [[sogs]] [[dang]] [[lhan cig tu]]/<br>
ma lus par ni rnam par bshad /<br>
[[ma lus par]] [[ni]] [[rnam par]] [[bshad]]//


15. Through fire and wood is explained without exception all the stages of self and the grasped and at the same time jugs, cloth and so on.
15. Through fire and wood is explained without exception all the stages of self and the grasped and at the same time jugs, cloth and so on.


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<span class=TibUni18>།གང་དག་བདག་དང་དངོས་པོ་རྣམས།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་བཅས་ཉིད་དང་ཐ་དད་པར།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྟོན་པ་དེ་དག་བསྟན་དོན་ལ།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།མཁས་སོ་སྙམ་དུ་མི་སེམས་སོ།།</span><br>


16. gang dag bdag dang dngos po rnams /<br>
16. [[gang dag]] [[bdag]] [[dang]] [[dngos po rnams]]/<br>
de bcas nyid dang tha dad par /<br>
[[de]] [[bcas]] [[nyid]] [[dang]] [[tha dad par]]/<br>
ston pa de dag bstan don la /<br>
[[ston pa]] [[de dag]] [[bstan don]] [[la]]/<br>
mkhas so snyam du mi sems so /<br>
[[mkhas]] [[so]] [[snyam du]] [[mi sems]] [[so]]//


16. I do not think those who teach the identity or difference of self and things are wise in the meaning of the teaching.
16. I do not think those who teach the identity or difference of self and things are wise in the meaning of the teaching.


me dang bud shing brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa bcu pa'o //<br>
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<span class=TibUni18>།མེ་དང་བུད་ཤིང་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་བཅུ་པའོ་།།</span><br>
 
[[me]] [[dang]] [[bud shing]] [[brtag pa]] [[zhes bya ba]] [[ste]] [[rab tu byed pa]] [[bcu pa]]'o//
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Chapter 10. Investigation of Fire and Firewood

(Fire) - (kun skyobs) here meaning as all consuming...and not necessarily as (me), one of khams lnga, the five elements)

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།བུད་ཤིང་གང་དེ་མེ་ཡིམ་ན།

།བྱེད་པ་པོ་དང་ལས་གཅིག་འགྱུར།།

།གཻ་ཏེ་ཤིག་ལས་མེ་གཞན་ན།

།ཤིང་མེད་པར་ཡང་འབྱུང་བར་འགྱུར།།

1. bud shing gang de me yin na/
byed pa po dang las gcig 'gyur/
gal te shing las me gzhan na/
shing med par yang 'byung bar 'gyur//

1. If firewood were fire, actor and act would be one. If fire were other than wood, it would occur even without wood.

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།རྟག་ཏུ་འབར་བ་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།

།འབར་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ལས་མི་འབྱུང་ཞིང།

།རྩོམ་པ་དོན་མེད་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།

།དེ་ལྟ་ཡིན་ན་ལས་ཀྱང་མེད།།

2. rtag tu 'bar ba nyid du 'gyur/
'bar byed rgyu las mi 'byung zhing/
rtsom pa don med nyid du 'gyur/
de lta yin na las kyang med//

2. [Fire] would burn permanently and would not arise from causes for burning. Starting [a fire] would be meaningless. If it were like that, there would also be no act.

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།གཞན་ལ་ལྟོས་པ་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར།

།འབར་བར་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ལས་མི་འབྱུང།

།རྟག་ཏུ་འབར་བ་ཡིན་ན་ནི།

།རྩོམ་པ་དོན་མེད་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།།

3. gzhan la ltos pa med pa'i phyir/
'bar bar byed rgyu las mi 'byung/
rtag tu 'bar ba yin na ni/
rtsom pa don med nyid du 'gyur//

3. Because [fire] does not depend on anything else, it would not arise from causes for burning. If it burned permanently, starting it would be meaningless.

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།དེ་ལ་གལ་ཏེ་འདི་སྙམ་དུ།

།སྲེག་བཞིན་བུད་ཤིང་ཡིན་སེམས་ན།

།གང་ཚེ་དེ་ཙམ་དེ་ཡིན་ན།

།གང་གིས་བུད་ཤིང་དེ་སྲེག་བྱེད།།

4. de la gal te 'di snyam du/
sreg bzhin bud shing yin sems na/
gang tshe de tsam de yin na/
gang gis bud shing de sreg byed//

4. Concerning this, if one thinks that while burning it is firewood, if it is such only at that time, by what could that firewood be ignited?

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།གཞན་ཕྱིར་མི་ཕྲད་ཕྲད་མེད་ན།

།སྲེག་པར་མི་འགྱུར་མི་སྲེག་ན།

།འཆི་བར་མི་འགྱུར་མི་འཆི་ན།

།རང་རྟགས་དང་ཡང་ལྡན་པར་གནས།།

5. gzhan phyir mi phrad phrad med na/
sreg par mi 'gyur mi sreg na/
'chi bar mi 'gyur mi 'chi na/
rang rtags dang yang ldan par gnas//

5. Because [fire] is other, it would not connect; if it did not connect, it would not ignite; if it did not ignite, it would not die; if it did not die, it would also remain in possession of its own characteristic.

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།ཇི་ལྟར་བུད་མེད་སྐྱེས་པ་དང།

།སྐྱེས་པའང་བུད་མེད་ཕྲད་པ་བཞི།

།གལ་ཏེ་ཤིང་ལས་མེ་གཞན་ཡང།

།ཤིང་དང་ཕྲད་དུ་རུང་བར་འགྱུར།།

6. ji ltar bud med skyes pa dang/
skyes pa'ang bud med phrad pa bzhi/
gal te shing las me gzhan yang/
shing dang phrad du** rung bar 'gyur//

6. Just as a woman connects with a man and a man too with a woman, although fire is other than wood, it is fit to connect with wood.

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།གལ་ཏེ་མེ་དང་ཤིང་དག་ནི།

།གཅིག་གིས་གཅིག་ནི་བསལ་གྱུར་ན།

།ཤིང་ལས་མེ་གཞན་ཉིད་ཡིན་ཡང།

།ཤིང་དང་ཕྲད་པར་འདོད་ལ་རག།།

7. gal te me dang shing dag ni/
gcig gis gcig ni bsal gyur na/
shing las me gzhan nyid yin yang/
shing dang phrad par 'dod la rag//

7. If fire and wood eliminated each other, even though fire is something other than wood, it would have to connect with wood.

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།གལ་ཏེ་ཤིང་ལྟོས་མེ་ཡིན་ལ།

།གལ་ཏེ་མེ་ལྟོས་ཤིང་ཡིན་ན་།

།གང་ལྟོས་མེ་དང་ཤིང་འགྱུར་བ།

།དང་པོར་གྲུབ་པ་གང་ཞིག་ཡིན།།

8. gal te shing ltos me yin la/
gal te me ltos shing yin na/
gang ltos me dang shing 'gyur ba/
dang por grub pa gang zhig yin//

8. If fire were dependent on wood and wood were dependent on fire, of what becomes fire and wood dependently, which would be established first?

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།གལ་ཏེ་ཤིང་ལྟོས་མེ་ཡིན་ན།

།མེ་གྲུབ་པ་ལ་སྒྲུབ་པར་འགྱུར།།

།བུད་པར་བྱ་བའི་ཤིང་ལ་ཡང།

།མེ་མེད་པར་ནི་འགྱུར་པ་ཡིན།

9. gal te shing ltos me yin na/
me grub pa la sgrub par 'gyur/
bud par bya ba'i shing la yang/
me med par ni 'gyur pa yin//

9. If fire were dependent on wood, [already] established fire would be established [again]. Firewood also would be [such] even without fire.

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།གལ་ཏེ་དངོས་པོ་གང་ལྟོས་འགྲུབ།

།དེ་ཉིད་ལ་ཡ་ལྟོས་ནས་ནི།

།ལྟོས་བྱ་གང་ཡིན་དེ་འགྲུབ་ན།

།གང་ལ་ལྟོས་ནས་གང་ཞིག་འགྲུབ།།

10. gal te dngos po gang ltos 'grub/
de nyid la ya ltos nas ni/
ltos bya gang yin de 'grub na/
gang la ltos nas gang zhig 'grub//

10. If a thing (A) is established dependently (on B), [but] if what it depends upon (B) is established also in dependence on that very thing (A), what would be established in dependence on what?

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།དངོས་པོ་ལྟོས་གྲུབ་གང་ཡིན་པ།

།དེ་མ་གྲུབ་ན་ཇི་ལྟར་ལྟོས།

།ཅི་སྟེ་གྲུབ་པ་ལྟོས་ཤེ་ན།

།དེ་ནི་ལྟོས་པར་མི་རིགས་སོ།།

11. dngos po ltos grub gang yin pa/
de ma grub na ji ltar ltos/
ci ste grub pa ltos she na/
de ni ltos par mi rigs so//

11. How can a thing (A) which is established dependently (on B) be dependent (on B) when it (A) is not established? If one asks, "how can establishment be dependent?" It is not reasonable for it (A) to be dependent.

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།ཤིང་ལ་ལྟོས་པའི་མེ་མེད་དེ།

།ཤིང་ལ་མ་ལྟོས་མེ་ཡང་མེད།

།མེ་ལ་ལྟོས་པའི་ཤིང་མེད་དེ།

།མེ་ལ་མ་ལྟོས་ཤིང་ཡང་མེད།།

12. shing la ltos pa'i me med de/
shing la ma ltos me yang med/
me la ltos pa'i [[shing[[ med de/
me la ma ltos shing yang med//

12. There is no fire that is dependent on wood; there is also no fire that is not dependent on wood. There is no wood that is dependent on fire; there is also no wood that is not dependent on fire.

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།མེ་ནི་གཞན་ལས་མི་འོང་སྟེ།

།ཤིང་ལའང་མེ་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།>

།དེ་བཞིན་ཤིང་གི་ལྷག་མ་ནི།

།སོང་དང་མ་སོང་བགོམ་པས་བསྟན།།

13. me ni gzhan las mi 'ong ste/
shing la'ang me ni yod ma yin/
de bzhin shing gi lhag ma ni/
song dang ma song bgom pas bstan//

13. Fire does not come from something else; fire also does not exist in wood. Likewise, the remainder of wood has been shown by gone, not-gone and going.

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།ཤིང་ཉིད་མེ་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ།

།ཤིང་ལས་གཞན་པ་མེ་ཡང་མེད།

།མེ་ནི་ཤིང་དང་ལྡན་མ་ཡིན།

།མེ་ལ་ཤིང་མེད་དེར་དེ་མེད།།

14. shing nyid me ni ma yin te/
shing las gzhan pa me yang med/
me ni shing dang ldan ma yin/
me la shing med der de med//

14. Wood itself is not fire; fire is also not something other than wood. Fire does not possess wood; wood does not exist in fire; that (fire) does not exist in it.

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།མེ་དང་ཤིང་གིས་བདག་དང་ནི།

།ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པའི་རིམ་པ་ཀུན།

།བུམ་སྣམ་སོགས་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ།

།མ་ལུས་པར་ནི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད།།

15. me dang shing gis bdag dang ni/
nye bar len pa'i rim pa kun/
bum snam sogs dang lhan cig tu/
ma lus par ni rnam par bshad//

15. Through fire and wood is explained without exception all the stages of self and the grasped and at the same time jugs, cloth and so on.

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།གང་དག་བདག་དང་དངོས་པོ་རྣམས།

།དེ་བཅས་ཉིད་དང་ཐ་དད་པར།

།སྟོན་པ་དེ་དག་བསྟན་དོན་ལ།

།མཁས་སོ་སྙམ་དུ་མི་སེམས་སོ།།

16. gang dag bdag dang dngos po rnams/
de bcas nyid dang tha dad par/
ston pa de dag bstan don la/
mkhas so snyam du mi sems so//

16. I do not think those who teach the identity or difference of self and things are wise in the meaning of the teaching.

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།མེ་དང་བུད་ཤིང་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་བཅུ་པའོ་།།

me dang bud shing brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa bcu pa'o//

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