དེ་ནི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་པར་འབྱུང་བ་ལ་མཁས་པ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། ། དེ་ཡང་གང་འགག་ཅེ་ན། ཚུལ་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་པའི་ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་པ་འགགས་པའི་ཕྱིར་མ་རིག་པ་འགག་གོ ། མ་རིག་པ་འགགས་པའི་ཕྱིར་འདུ་བྱེད་འགག་པ་ནས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་འབའ་ཞིག་གི་བར་དུ་འགག་པར་འགྱུར་རོ། ། ཞེས་དེ་སྙམ་དུ་སེམས་ཏེ།
“Now, what is the bodhisatvas’ skill in dependent origination? The bodhisatva retreats to a secluded place and absorbs himself in meditation, reflecting in the following way: ‘Where does the origin of this great mass of suffering come from?’ He answers, ‘The origin of ignorance comes from the origin of superficiality. The origin of mental conditioning comes from the origin of ignorance. The origin of consciousness comes from the origin of mental conditioning. The origin of name and form comes from the origin of consciousness. The origin of the six sense fields comes from the origin of name and form. The origin of contact comes from the origin of the six sense fields. The origin of feeling comes from the origin of contact. The origin of desire comes from the origin of feeling. The origin of grasping comes from the origin of desire. The origin of becoming comes from the origin of desire. The origin of birth comes from the origin of becoming. The origin of aging, death, pain, despair, suffering, depression, and struggle comes from the origin of birth.’ He continues, ‘This is how these phenomena come about. They are powerless, ineffective, and ownerless. They are causally related to what is wholesome, to what is unwholesome, to what is immovable, and to nirvāṇa. They are all created by conditions. It is the causes of a sentient being’s actions, their causal faculties, and their causal behavior [MS.132.a] that determines the causal result.’ These may be complete or not complete, and he understands that everything is related to how the sum of causes turns out. This is what is known as skill in dependent origination.
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