བྱམས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་དགེ་བ་སྟེ། གང་དང་ཡང་བྲལ་བས་མ་ཡིན་ནོ། སྙིང་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་དགེ་བ་སྟེ། གང་དང་ཡང་བྲལ་བས་མ་ཡིན་ནོ། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་མ་འདྲེས་པ་བཅྭོ་བརྒྱད་དགེ་བ་སྟེ།
“Venerable Śāradvatīputra, the truths of the noble ones are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the meditative concentrations are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the immeasurable attitudes are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the formless absorptions are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the eight liberations are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the nine serial steps of meditative absorption are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness gateways to liberation are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the extrasensory powers are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the meditative stabilities are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the dhāraṇī gateways are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the ten powers of the tathāgatas are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the four fearlessnesses are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; the four kinds of exact knowledge are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; great loving kindness is virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; great compassion is virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears; and the eighteen distinct qualities of the buddhas are virtuous, but not because anything at all disappears.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings