ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ནི། མྱིག་གི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ཆེ་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་ཆུང་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་དོ། །རྣ་བའི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ཆེ་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་ཆུང་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་དོ། །སྣའི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ཆེ་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་ཆུང་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་དོ། །ལྕེའི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ཆེ་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་ཆུང་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་དོ། །ལུས་ཀྱི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ཆེ་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་ཆུང་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་དོ། །ཡིད་ཀྱི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ཆེ་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་ཆུང་བར་མྱི་བྱེད་དོ། །
“And if, Blessed Lord, bodhisattva great beings who have newly set out in the vehicle, relying on the perfection of wisdom, relying on the perfection of meditative concentration, relying on the perfection of perseverance, relying on the perfection of tolerance, relying on the perfection of ethical discipline, and relying on the perfection of generosity, perceive that ‘the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken physical forms, does not strengthen or weaken feelings, does not strengthen or weaken perceptions, does not strengthen or weaken formative predispositions, and does not strengthen or weaken consciousness; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the eyes, does not strengthen or weaken the ears, does not strengthen or weaken the nose, does not strengthen or weaken the tongue, does not strengthen or weaken the body, and does not strengthen or weaken the mental faculty; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken sights, does not strengthen or weaken sounds, does not strengthen or weaken odors, does not strengthen or weaken tastes, does not strengthen or weaken tangibles, and does not strengthen or weaken mental phenomena; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken visual consciousness, does not strengthen or weaken auditory consciousness, does not strengthen or weaken olfactory consciousness, does not strengthen or weaken gustatory consciousness, does not strengthen or weaken tactile consciousness, and does not strengthen or weaken mental consciousness; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken visually compounded sensory contact, does not strengthen or weaken aurally compounded sensory contact, does not strengthen or weaken nasally compounded sensory contact, does not strengthen or weaken lingually compounded sensory contact, does not strengthen or weaken corporeally compounded sensory contact, and does not strengthen or weaken mentally compounded sensory contact; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken feelings conditioned by visually compounded sensory contact, does not strengthen or weaken feelings conditioned by aurally compounded sensory contact, does not strengthen or weaken feelings conditioned by nasally compounded sensory contact, does not strengthen or weaken feelings conditioned by lingually compounded sensory contact, does not strengthen or weaken feelings conditioned by corporeally compounded sensory contact, and does not strengthen or weaken feelings conditioned by mentally compounded sensory contact; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the earth element, does not strengthen or weaken the water element, does not strengthen or weaken the fire element, does not strengthen or weaken the wind element, does not strengthen or weaken the space element, and does not strengthen or weaken the consciousness element; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken ignorance, does not strengthen or weaken formative predispositions, does not strengthen or weaken consciousness, does not strengthen or weaken name and form, does not strengthen or weaken the six sense fields, does not strengthen or weaken sensory contact, does not strengthen or weaken sensation, does not strengthen or weaken craving, does not strengthen or weaken grasping, does not strengthen or weaken the rebirth process, does not strengthen or weaken birth, and does not strengthen or weaken aging and death; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the perfection of generosity, does not strengthen or weaken the perfection of ethical discipline, does not strengthen or weaken the perfection of tolerance, does not strengthen or weaken the perfection of perseverance, and does not strengthen or weaken the perfection of meditative concentration; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of internal phenomena, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of external phenomena, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of external and internal phenomena, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of emptiness, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of great extent, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of ultimate reality, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of conditioned phenomena, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of unconditioned phenomena, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of the unlimited, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of that which has neither beginning nor end, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of nonexclusion, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of inherent nature, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of all phenomena, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of intrinsic defining characteristics, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of that which cannot be apprehended, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of nonentities, does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of essential nature, and does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness of an essential nature of nonentities; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the applications of mindfulness, does not strengthen or weaken the correct exertions, does not strengthen or weaken the supports for miraculous ability, does not strengthen or weaken the faculties, does not strengthen or weaken the powers, does not strengthen or weaken the branches of enlightenment, and does not strengthen or weaken the noble eightfold path; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the truths of the noble ones, does not strengthen or weaken the meditative concentrations, does not strengthen or weaken the immeasurable attitudes, and does not strengthen or weaken the formless absorptions; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the eight liberations, does not strengthen or weaken the nine serial steps of meditative absorption, and does not strengthen or weaken the emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness gateways to liberation; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the extrasensory powers, does not strengthen or weaken the meditative stabilities, and does not strengthen or weaken the dhāraṇī gateways; the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the ten powers of the tathāgatas, does not strengthen or weaken the four fearlessnesses, does not strengthen or weaken the four kinds of exact knowledge, and does not strengthen or weaken great compassion; and the perfection of wisdom does not strengthen or weaken the eighteen distinct qualities of the buddhas, does not strengthen or weaken the fruit of having entered the stream, does not strengthen or weaken the fruit of once-returner, does not strengthen or weaken the fruit of non-returner, does not strengthen or weaken arhatship, does not strengthen or weaken individual enlightenment, does not strengthen or weaken the knowledge of the aspects of the path, and does not strengthen or weaken enlightenment, the buddhas, or the attributes of the buddhas,’ in that case, Blessed Lord, those bodhisattva great beings who perceive in such a way do not practice the perfection of wisdom.
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