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རྒྱ་གར་འཕགས་པའི་ཡུལ་གྱི་མཁས་གྲུབ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་གསུངས་པ།
The Learned and Accomplished Masters of India, the Land of the Āryas
Āryadeva
ཐེ་ཚོམ་ཟ་བར་ཡང་མི་འགྱུར། །
ཐེ་ཚོམ་ཟ་བར་ཙམ་ཞིག་གིས། །
Those with little merit will not
Even wonder about these things.
But merely to entertain doubts
About samsara will make it fall apart.
- Aryadeva, Four Hundred Verses, VIII, 5
བར་དུ་བདག་ནི་བཟློག་པ་དང༌། །
ཕྱི་ནས་ལྟ་བ་ཀུན་བཟློག་པ། །
At first, turn away from non-virtue,
In the middle, dispel misconceptions of self,
Finally, go beyond all philosophical views—
One who understands this is wise indeed.
- Āryadeva, Four Hundred Verses, VIII, 15
དེ་ནི་ཀུན་གྱི་ལྟ་པོར་བཤད། །
གཅིག་གི་སྟོང་ཉིད་གང་ཡིན་པ། །
Whoever sees the nature of one thing
Is said to see the nature of everything.
For the emptiness of one thing
Is the emptiness of everything.
- Aryadeva, Four Hundred Verses, VIII, 16
Aśvaghoṣa
སྐྱེས་ནས་ལ་ལ་མ་ཤི་བ། །
འགའ་ཞིག་ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་མཐོང་བའམ། །
Have you ever, on earth or in the heavens,
Seen a being who was born but will not die?
Have you ever heard that this had happened?
Or even had suspicions that it might?
- Aśvaghoṣa, Letter of Consolation
མཁའ་ལ་རྒྱང་རིང་འགྲོ་བ་ཡང་། །
གང་ན་འཆི་མེད་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་བའི། །
Great rishis with the five superknowledges,
Can fly far and wide through the sky,
Yet they will never reach a place
Where they might live and never die.
- Aśvaghoṣa, Letter of Consolation
Atīśa
གདམས་ངག་གི་མཆོག་མཚང་ཐོག་ཏུ་འབེབས་པ་ཡིན། །
The best guru is one who attacks your hidden faults
The best instructions are the ones that target those faults.
གཅིག་པུར་འདུག་ན་སེམས་ལ་བརྟག །
In the company of others, guard your speech;
Whenever you are alone, guard your mind.
- Atīśa, The Jewel Rosary of the Bodhisattvas
སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་དུ་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །
You should know that beings are of three kinds—
Those of lesser, intermediate and supreme capacity.
འཁོར་བའི་བདེ་བ་ཙམ་དག་ལ། །
རང་ཉིད་དོན་དུ་གཉེར་བྱེད་པ། །
Those who strive by any means
To gain only the pleasures of samsara
For themselves alone—
Such people are called 'lesser' individuals.
སྡིག་པའི་ལས་ལས་ལྡོག་བདག་ཉིད། །
གང་ཞིག་རང་ཞི་ཙམ་དོན་གཉེར། །
Those who turn their backs on worldly pleasures,
And avoid any harmful actions,
Striving for peace for themselves alone—
Such individuals are said to be 'intermediate'.
གང་ཞིག་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན། །
ཡང་དག་ཟད་པར་ཀུན་ནས་འདོད། །
Those who long to put a complete end
To all the sufferings of others
Through the sufferings of their own experience—
Individuals such as these are supreme.
Bhāvaviveka
མེད་པར་ཡང་དག་ཁང་ཆེན་གྱི། །
སྟེང་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱ་བ་ནི། །
Trying to reach the great mansion
Of the authentic nature of reality
Without the steps of the authentic relative
Is not an approach the wise should take.[1]
- Bhāvaviveka, Heart of the Middle Way, III, 12