དེ་ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་ཞེ་ན། དེ་ནི་ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །ཚོར་བའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །འདུ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །འདུ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །མྱིག་གི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །རྣ་བའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །སྣའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །ལྕེའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །ལུས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །ཡིད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མི་ནུས་སོ། །གཟུགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །སྒྲའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །དྲིའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །རོའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །རེག་གི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བར་མྱི་ནུས་སོ། །
“If you ask why, Kauśika, it is because the inherent nature of physical forms cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of feelings cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of perceptions cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of formative predispositions cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of consciousness cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of the eyes cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the ears cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the nose cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the tongue cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the body cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of the mental faculty cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of sights cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of sounds cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of odors cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of tastes cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of tangibles cannot be dedicated, and the intrinsic nature of mental phenomena cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of visual consciousness cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of auditory consciousness cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of olfactory consciousness cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of gustatory consciousness cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of tactile consciousness cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of mental consciousness cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of visually compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of aurally compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of nasally compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of lingually compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of corporeally compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of mentally compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of feelings conditioned by visually compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of feelings conditioned by aurally compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of feelings conditioned by nasally compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of feelings conditioned by lingually compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of feelings conditioned by corporeally compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of feelings conditioned by mentally compounded sensory contact cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of the earth element cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the water element cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the fire element cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the wind element cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the space element cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of the consciousness element cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of ignorance cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of formative predispositions cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of consciousness cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of name and form cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the six sense fields cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of sensory contact cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of sensation cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of craving cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of grasping cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the rebirth process cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of birth cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of aging and death cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of the perfection of generosity cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the perfection of ethical discipline cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the perfection of tolerance cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the perfection of perseverance cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the perfection of meditative concentration cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of the perfection of wisdom cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of the emptiness of internal phenomena cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of external phenomena cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of external and internal phenomena cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of emptiness cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of great extent cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of ultimate reality cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of conditioned phenomena cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of unconditioned phenomena cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of the unlimited cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of that which has neither beginning nor end cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of nonexclusion cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of inherent nature cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of all phenomena cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of intrinsic defining characteristics cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of that which cannot be apprehended cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of nonentities cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness of essential nature cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of the emptiness of an essential nature of nonentities cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of the applications of mindfulness cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the correct exertions cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the supports for miraculous ability cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the faculties cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the powers cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the branches of enlightenment cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of the noble eightfold path cannot be dedicated; the inherent nature of the truths of the noble ones cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the meditative concentrations cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the immeasurable attitudes cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the formless absorptions cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the eight liberations cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the nine serial steps of meditative absorption cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness gateways to liberation cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the extrasensory powers cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the meditative stabilities cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the dhāraṇī gateways cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the powers of the tathāgatas cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the fearlessnesses cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the kinds of exact knowledge cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of great loving kindness cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of great compassion cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of the eighteen distinct qualities of the buddhas cannot be dedicated; and the inherent nature of the fruit of having entered the stream cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the fruit of once-returner cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the fruit of non-returner cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of arhatship cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of individual enlightenment cannot be dedicated, the inherent nature of the knowledge of the aspects of the path cannot be dedicated, and the inherent nature of all-aspect omniscience cannot be dedicated.
Sensory contact, Observation, Association