དེ་ནས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་དེའི་ཚེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་འདི་དག་གསུངས་སོ། །
“He then investigates whether the abstention from acts of body, speech, or mind can be conceived of. Through sincere investigation he comes to see that it is impossible to conceive of the abstention from acts of body, speech, or mind as being, for example, blue, yellow, red, white, crimson, crystal, or silver. It is not something that can be perceived by the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, or the mind. Why? It does not arise, is not created, does not occur, and is not engaged with; it cannot be understood as being performed by someone. His conclusion will be that morality is not conditioned in any way, and anything that is not conditioned is not something that can be conceived of. Something that cannot be conceived of is not something one can apply oneself to. In this way, he does not focus on the morality of good conduct. In the same way, he does not focus on someone who is moral or on the morality to which he applies himself. When he has seen this, the view of self-entity will not arise in him, as it is the view of self-entity that leads one to be intent on analyzing morality and immorality. When he has seen this, he is thoughtful in his commitments, his observances, his practices, and his responsibilities, as it is through thoughtful conduct that one comes to be known as a moral individual. However, he does not cling to the idea of a self, and he does not cling to the idea of another, so his morality is never given up; his morality remains untarnished. Clinging to the idea of a self leads to clinging to the idea of morality, but one who does not cling to the idea of a self does not cling to the idea of morality. One who does not cling to the idea of morality does not violate the training, and as they do not violate their training, neither will they violate their morality, although they will still not cling to it. The reason they do not cling to it is that [MS.61.b] they know that all phenomena exist in relation to other phenomena. That which exists in relation to other phenomena has no self, and when there is no self, what is there to cling to?”
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings