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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཕུང་པོ་བདག་ཡིན་ན།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཕུང་པོ་བདག་ཡིན་ན།</span><br> | ||
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/[[phung po'i mtshan nyid]] [[med par 'gyur]]// | /[[phung po'i mtshan nyid]] [[med par 'gyur]]// | ||
1. If the aggregates were self, it would be possessed of arising and decaying. If it were other than the aggregates, it | 1. If the aggregates were self, it would be possessed of arising and decaying. If it were other than the aggregates, it would not have the characteristics of the aggregates. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།བདག་ཉིད་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།བདག་ཉིད་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br> | ||
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/[[ngar 'dzin]] [[nga yir 'dzin med]] [['gyur]]// | /[[ngar 'dzin]] [[nga yir 'dzin med]] [['gyur]]// | ||
2. If the self did not exist, where could what is mine exist? In order to pacify self and what is mine, grasping I and | 2. If the self did not exist, where could what is mine exist? In order to pacify self and what is mine, grasping I and grasping mine can exist no more. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།ངར་འཛིན་ང་ཡིར་འཛིན་མེད་གང།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།ངར་འཛིན་ང་ཡིར་འཛིན་མེད་གང།</span><br> | ||
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/[[gang gis]] [[mthong ba]]s[[ mi mthong]] [[ngo]]// | /[[gang gis]] [[mthong ba]]s[[ mi mthong]] [[ngo]]// | ||
3. The one who does not grasp at me and mine likewise does not exist. Whoever sees the one who does not grasp | 3. The one who does not grasp at me and mine likewise does not exist. Whoever sees the one who does not grasp at me and mine does not see. ([c-d are omitted from the translated verse on the grounds of their being a reiteration of a-b]) | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།ནང་དང་ཕྱི་རོལ་ཉིད་དག་ལ།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།ནང་དང་ཕྱི་རོལ་ཉིད་དག་ལ།</span><br> | ||
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4. When one ceases thinking of inner and outer things as self and mine, clinging will come to a stop. Through that ceasing, birth will cease. | 4. When one ceases thinking of inner and outer things as self and mine, clinging will come to a stop. Through that ceasing, birth will cease. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་ཟད་པས་ཐར།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་ཟད་པས་ཐར།</span><br> | ||
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5. Through the ceasing of action and affliction, there is freedom. Action and affliction [come] from thoughts and they from fixations. Fixations are stopped by emptiness. | 5. Through the ceasing of action and affliction, there is freedom. Action and affliction [come] from thoughts and they from fixations. Fixations are stopped by emptiness. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།བདག་གོ་ཞེས་ཀྱང་བཏགས་གྱུར་ཅིང།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།བདག་གོ་ཞེས་ཀྱང་བཏགས་གྱུར་ཅིང།</span><br> | ||
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6. It is said that "there is a self," but "non-self" too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is "neither self nor non-self." ([[Tsongkhapa]] (325) cites the Kasyapaparvrtti as a source here). | 6. It is said that "there is a self," but "non-self" too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is "neither self nor non-self." ([[Tsongkhapa]] (325) cites the Kasyapaparvrtti as a source here). | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།བརྗོད་པར་བྱ་བ་ལྡོག་པ་སྟེ།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།བརྗོད་པར་བྱ་བ་ལྡོག་པ་སྟེ།</span><br> | ||
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7. That to which language refers is denied, because an object experienced by the mind is denied. The unborn and unceasing nature of reality is comparable to nirvana. | 7. That to which language refers is denied, because an object experienced by the mind is denied. The unborn and unceasing nature of reality is comparable to nirvana. | ||
[Tsongkhapa (326) explains that c-d are an answer to the question implied in 5c-d, i.e. "how does emptiness stop fixations?"] | |||
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<span class=TibUni18>།ཐམས་ཅད་ཡང་དག་ཡང་དག་མིན།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།ཐམས་ཅད་ཡང་དག་ཡང་དག་མིན།</span><br> | ||
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8. Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha. | 8. Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་ལས་ཤེས་མིན་ཞི་བ་དང།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་ལས་ཤེས་མིན་ཞི་བ་དང།</span><br> | ||
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9. Not known through others, peaceful, not fixed by fixations, without conceptual thought, without differentiation: these are the characteristics of suchness. | 9. Not known through others, peaceful, not fixed by fixations, without conceptual thought, without differentiation: these are the characteristics of suchness. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།གང་ལ་བརྟན་ཏེ་གང་འབྱུང་བ།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།གང་ལ་བརྟན་ཏེ་གང་འབྱུང་བ།</span><br> | ||
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10. Whatever arises dependent on something else is at that time neither that very thing nor other than it. Hence it is neither severed nor permanent. | 10. Whatever arises dependent on something else is at that time neither that very thing nor other than it. Hence it is neither severed nor permanent. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།སངས་རྒྱས་འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་རྣམས་ཀྱི།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།སངས་རྒྱས་འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་རྣམས་ཀྱི།</span><br> | ||
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11. That ambrosial teaching of the buddhas, those guardians of the world, is neither the same nor different, neither severed nor permanent. | 11. That ambrosial teaching of the buddhas, those guardians of the world, is neither the same nor different, neither severed nor permanent. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།རྫོགས་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་མ་བྱུང་ཞིང།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།རྫོགས་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་མ་བྱུང་ཞིང།</span><br> | ||
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12. When perfect buddhas do not appear, and when their disciples have died out, the wisdom of the self-awakened ones will vividly arise without reliance. | 12. When perfect buddhas do not appear, and when their disciples have died out, the wisdom of the self-awakened ones will vividly arise without reliance. | ||
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<span class=TibUni18>།བདག་དང་ཆོས་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་པའོ།།</span><br> | <span class=TibUni18>།བདག་དང་ཆོས་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་པའོ།།</span><br> |
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Chapter 18. Investigation of Self and Things
(Self)
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།གལ་ཏེ་ཕུང་པོ་བདག་ཡིན་ན།
།སྐྱེ་དང་འཇིག་པ་ཅན་དུ་འགྱུར།
།གལ་ཏེ་ཕུང་པོ་རྣམས་ལས་གཞན།
།ཕུང་པོའི་མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པར་འགྱུར
1. /gal te phung po bdag yin na/
/skye dang 'jig pa can du 'gyur/
/gal te phung po rnams las gzhan/
/phung po'i mtshan nyid med par 'gyur//
1. If the aggregates were self, it would be possessed of arising and decaying. If it were other than the aggregates, it would not have the characteristics of the aggregates.
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།བདག་ཉིད་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།
།བདག་གི་ཡོད་པ་ག་ལ་འགྱུར།
།བདག་དང་བདག་གི་ཞི་བའི་ཕྱིར།
།ངར་འཛིན་ང་ཡིར་འཛིན་མེད་འགྱུར
2. /bdag nyid yod pa ma yin na/
/bdag gi yod pa ga la 'gyur/
/bdag dang bdag gi zhi ba'i phyir/
/ngar 'dzin nga yir 'dzin med 'gyur//
2. If the self did not exist, where could what is mine exist? In order to pacify self and what is mine, grasping I and grasping mine can exist no more.
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།ངར་འཛིན་ང་ཡིར་འཛིན་མེད་གང།
།དེ་ཡང་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ།
།ངར་འཛིན་ང་ཡིར་འཛིན་མེད་པར།
།གང་གིས་མཐོང་བས་མི་མཐོང་ངོ།།
3. /ngar 'dzin nga yir 'dzin med gang/
/de yang yod pa ma yin te/
/ngar 'dzin nga yir 'dzin med par/
/gang gis mthong basmi mthong ngo//
3. The one who does not grasp at me and mine likewise does not exist. Whoever sees the one who does not grasp at me and mine does not see. ([c-d are omitted from the translated verse on the grounds of their being a reiteration of a-b])
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།ནང་དང་ཕྱི་རོལ་ཉིད་དག་ལ།
།བདག་དང་བདག་གི་སྙམ་ཟད་ན།
།ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པ་འགག་འགྱུར་ཞིང།
།དེ་ཟད་པས་ན་སྐྱེ་བ་ཟད།།
4. /nang dang phyi rol nyid dag la/
/bdag dang bdag gi snyam zad na/
/nye bar len pa 'gag 'gyur zhing/
/de zad pas na skye ba zad//
4. When one ceases thinking of inner and outer things as self and mine, clinging will come to a stop. Through that ceasing, birth will cease.
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།ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་ཟད་པས་ཐར།
།ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་རྣམ་རྟོག་ལས།
།དེ་དག་སྤྲོས་ལས་སྤྲོས་པ་ནི།
།སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་འགག་པར་འགྱུར།།
5. /las dang nyon mongs zad pas thar/
/las dang nyon mongs rnam rtog las/
/de dag spros las spros pa ni/
/stong pa nyid kyis 'gag par 'gyur//
5. Through the ceasing of action and affliction, there is freedom. Action and affliction [come] from thoughts and they from fixations. Fixations are stopped by emptiness.
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།བདག་གོ་ཞེས་ཀྱང་བཏགས་གྱུར་ཅིང།
།བདག་མེད་ཅེས་ཀྱང་བསྟན་པར་འགྱུར།
།སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་བདག་དང་ནི།
།བདག་མེད་འགའ་མེད་ཅེས་ཀྱང་བསྟན།།
6. /bdag go zhes kyang btags gyur cing/
/bdag med ces kyang bstan par 'gyur/
/sangs rgyas rnams kyis bdag dang ni/
/bdag med 'ga' med ces kyang bstan//
6. It is said that "there is a self," but "non-self" too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is "neither self nor non-self." (Tsongkhapa (325) cites the Kasyapaparvrtti as a source here).
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།བརྗོད་པར་བྱ་བ་ལྡོག་པ་སྟེ།
།སེམས་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་ལྡོག་པས་སོ།
།མ་སྐྱེས་པ་དང་མ་འགགས་པ།
།ཆོས་ཉིད་མྱ་ངན་འདས་དང་མཚུངས།།
7. /brjod par bya ba ldog pa ste/
/sems kyi spyod yul ldog pas so/
/ma skyes pa dang ma 'gags pa/
/chos nyid mya ngan 'das dang mtshungs//
7. That to which language refers is denied, because an object experienced by the mind is denied. The unborn and unceasing nature of reality is comparable to nirvana. [Tsongkhapa (326) explains that c-d are an answer to the question implied in 5c-d, i.e. "how does emptiness stop fixations?"]
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།ཐམས་ཅད་ཡང་དག་ཡང་དག་མིན།
།ཡང་དག་ཡང་དག་མ་ཡིན་ཉིད།
།ཡང་དག་མིན་མིན་ཡང་དག་མིན།
།དེ་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་རྗེས་བསྟན་པའོ།།
8. /thams cad yang dag yang dag min/
/yang dag yang dag ma yin nyid/
/yang dag min min yang dag min/
/de ni sangs rgyas rjes bstan pa'o//
8. Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha.
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།གཞན་ལས་ཤེས་མིན་ཞི་བ་དང།
།སྤྲོས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་མ་སྤྲོས་པ།
།རྣམ་རྟོག་མེད་དོན་ཐ་དད་མིན།
།དེ་ནི་དེ་ཉིད་མཚན་ཉིད་དོ།།
9. /gzhan las shes min zhi ba dang/
/spros pa rnams kyis ma spros pa/
/rnam rtog med don tha dad min/
/de ni de nyid mtshan nyid do//
9. Not known through others, peaceful, not fixed by fixations, without conceptual thought, without differentiation: these are the characteristics of suchness.
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།གང་ལ་བརྟན་ཏེ་གང་འབྱུང་བ།
།དེ་ནི་རེ་ཞིག་དེ་ཉིད་མིན།
།དེ་ལས་གཞན་པའང་མ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར།
།དེ་ཕྱིར་ཆད་མིན་རྟག་མ་ཡིན།།
10. /gang la brtan te gang 'byung ba/
/de ni re zhig de nyid min/
/de las gzhan pa'ang ma yin phyir/
/de phyir chad min rtag ma yin//
10. Whatever arises dependent on something else is at that time neither that very thing nor other than it. Hence it is neither severed nor permanent.
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།སངས་རྒྱས་འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་རྣམས་ཀྱི།
།བསྟན་པ་བདུད་རྩིར་གྱུར་པ་དེ།
།དོན་གཅིག་མ་ཡིན་ཐ་དད་མིན།
།ཆད་པ་མ་ཡིན་རྟག་མ་ཡིན།།
11. /sangs rgyas 'jig rten mgon rnams kyi/
/bstan pa bdud rtsir gyur pa de/
/don gcig ma yin tha dad min/
/chad pa ma yin rtag ma yin//
Buddhapalita commentary gives:/don gcig min don tha dad min/chad pa ma yin rtag min pa/de ni sangs rgyas 'jig rten gyi/mgon po'i bstan pa bdud rtsi yin/
Buddhapalita commentary: Not the same, not different, not severed, not permanent - that is the ambrosial teaching of the buddha, the guardian of the world.]
11. That ambrosial teaching of the buddhas, those guardians of the world, is neither the same nor different, neither severed nor permanent.
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།རྫོགས་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་མ་བྱུང་ཞིང།
།ཉན་ཐོས་རྣམས་ཀྱང་ཟད་པ་ན།
།རང་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ནི།
།སྟེན་པ་མེད་ལས་རབ་ཏུ་སྐྱེ།།
12. /rdzogs sangs rgyas rnams ma byung zhing/
/nyan thos rnams kyang zad pa na/
/rang sangs rgyas kyi ye shes ni/
/sten pa med las rab tu skye//
[Lha.: *rten. Buddhapalita: brten pa med. Ts. sten. Skt: asamsargat.]
12. When perfect buddhas do not appear, and when their disciples have died out, the wisdom of the self-awakened ones will vividly arise without reliance.
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།བདག་དང་ཆོས་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་པའོ།།
/bdag dang chos brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa bco brgyad pa'o//