ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་ནི་ཚུལ་བཞིན་གྱི་ཚིག་གོ ། དེ་ལྟར་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཚུལ་བཞིན་དུ་འཇུག་པ་ལ་བརྩོན་པ། ཚུལ་བཞིན་གྱི་ཚིག་མཐོང་བ་དེ་ནི་གང་གིས་མཐོང་བ་དེ་ཉིད་མི་མཐོང་སྟེ། ཇི་ལྟར་མི་མཐོང་རྣམ་པར་མི་མཐོང་བ་དེ་ལྟར་མཐོང་ངོ་། ། དེ་ལྟར་མཐོང་ན་ཚུལ་བཞིན་མཐོང་བ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །
“What is meant by non-superficial words, Śāriputra? Words that make sense are not superficial. Furthermore, Śāriputra, words that are not superficial are words that guide one. They are words that act as a door. They are words that give one direction. They are words that are a cause. They are words of investigation. They are words that are not contradictory. They are words that cannot be disputed. They are words of equanimity. They are words that do not attract. [MS.119.a] They are words that do not push away. They are words that do not proliferate. They are words that do not dwindle away. They are words that do not shrink. They are words that do not arise. They are words that do not give any grounds for disagreement. They are words that cannot be refuted. They are words that cannot be opposed. They are words for what is essential. They are words for the way things are. They are words that are not false. They are words that are nothing other than what they are. They are words for the actual state of things. They are words for what is actually the case. They are words that are the same throughout the three times. They are words that are precise. They are words that are not limited to the physical objects of perception. They are words that are not limited to feeling, perception, mental conditioning, or consciousness. They are words that are not limited to the realm of the eye, forms, and the eye consciousness. They are words that are not limited to the realm of the ear, sound, and the ear consciousness. They are words that are not limited to the realm of the nose, smell, and the nose consciousness. They are words that are not limited to the realm of the tongue, taste, and the tongue consciousness. They are words that are not limited to the realm of the body, physical objects, and body consciousness. They are words that are not limited to the realm of the mind, mental objects, and mental consciousness. They are words that rely on the meaning. They are words that rely on the Dharma. They are words that rely on knowledge. They are words that rely on the explicit meaning. These, Śāriputra, are words that are not superficial.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings