ཡང་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་རང་བཞིན་གང་ཡིན་ཞེ་ན། འདི་ལྟ་སྟེ། མི་རྟག་པའི་རང་བཞིན་དང་། སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཏེ། ཕུང་པོ་ཡང་དེའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡིན་ནོ། ། གང་དེ་ལ་མཁས་པ་དེ་ནི་ཕུང་པོ་ལ་མཁས་པ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། ། དེ་ལྟར་ན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཕུང་པོ་ལ་མཁས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ལ་སྤྱོད་དོ། ། དེ་ལ་ཁམས་ལ་མཁས་པ་གང་ཞེ་ན། འདི་ལྟ་སྟེ། ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་ནི་སའི་ཁམས་མོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་སྲ་བའི་མཚན་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན་ནོ། །
“What does it mean, then, to have a skilled approach to the skandhas? One can illustrate the skandhas by giving some examples. They can be compared to froth, to a mirage, to a bubble, to a plantain tree, to an illusion, to a dream, to an echo, to a hallucination, and to a reflection. Form is like froth in that froth has no self, no being, no life force, no person, no man, no human, and no individual. Form has as much essential nature as froth. [MS.120.a] This skillful way of understanding things is what is known as having a skilled approach to the skandhas. Feeling is like a bubble. A bubble has no self, no being, no life force, no person, no human, no individual, no offspring, and no man. Feeling has as much essential nature as a bubble. This skillful way of understanding things is what is known as having a skilled approach to skandhas. Perception is like a mirage. A mirage has no self, no being, no life force, and so forth, and no man. Perception has as much essential nature as a mirage. This skillful way of understanding things is what is known as having a skilled approach to skandhas. Mental conditioning is like a plantain tree. A plantain tree has no self, no being, no life force, and so forth, and no man. Mental conditioning has as much essential nature as a plantain tree. This skillful way of understanding things is what is known as having a skilled approach to skandhas. Consciousness is like an illusion. An illusion has no self, no being, no life force, no person, no human, no individual, no man, no one who acts, and no one who experiences. Consciousness has as much essential nature as an illusion. This skillful way of understanding things is what is known as having a skilled approach to skandhas.
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