དེ་ལྟར་ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་བསམ་གཏན་དང་། རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་དང་། ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་དང་། སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པའི་ཀུན་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་དང་། རྣམ་པར་བྱང་བ་དང་། ལྡང་བ་མཁྱེན་པའི་སྟོབས་དེ་ནི་མཐའ་ཡས་མུ་མེད་དེ ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཚུངས་ཤིང་མཉམ་མོ། ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེ་ཐོས་ནས་མངོན་པར་དད། ཡིད་ཆེས། རབ་ཏུ་རྟོག ། སོམ་ཉི་མེད། ཐེ་ཚོམ་མི་ཟ། རྒྱ་ཆེར་དགའ་མགུ་སྟེ། རངས་པ་རྙེད་ཅིང་ནམ་མཁའ་ལྟ་བུར་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པའི་ཕྱིར་ངོ་མཚར་དང་། རྨད་དུ་འདུ་ཤེས་སྐྱེད་དོ། །
“He attains the eight liberations in order from first to last, and in reverse order from last to first. He attains them both in order and in reverse order. What are these eight liberations? The first liberation is when one with form sees forms. The second liberation is when the internal formless consciousness sees external forms. The third liberation is when the beauty of liberation attracts one toward this quality of beauty. The fourth liberation is the attainment of the abode of limitless space. The fifth liberation is the attainment of the abode of limitless consciousness. The sixth liberation is the attainment of the abode of nothing whatsoever. The seventh liberation is the attainment of the abode of neither perception nor nonperception. The eighth liberation is the cessation of perception and feeling. He attains the eight liberations in order from first to last, and in reverse order from last to first. He teaches that there are levels of concentration that can be seen within the accomplishment of concentration, but one cannot really make any distinctions within the Tathāgata’s concentration or attain the concentration of a tathāgata by making it into an object. Through a single concentration the Tathāgata enters into all concentrations, and when he emerges, the Tathāgata accomplishes all concentrations. The mind of the Tathāgata does not enter into them one after the other. The mind of the Tathāgata can never be perceived as not being composed. No one is able to observe the concentration of the Tathāgata.
Perfection of wisdom, Emptiness, World systems