[Haibundadam]

From
Shenpen Ösel.

As this is from a longer Teaching I posted the Link At the end.

Selected Verses From Nagarjuna’s
Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness

Entities do not exist
In their causes, in their conditions,
In aggregations of many things, or in individual things.

Therefore, all entities are empty. (3)Because it already exists, that which exists does not arise.
Because it does not exist, that which does not exist does not arise.
Because they contradict each other, existence and nonexistence do not
[arise] together

Since there is no arising, there is no remaining or cessation either. (4)
Without one there are not many, and
Without many there is not one.

Therefore, dependently arisen entities [like these]
Have no characteristics.
[In the true nature] there is neither permanence nor impermanence,
Neither self nor nonself, neither clean nor unclean
And neither happiness nor suffering.

Therefore, the [four] mistaken views do not exist.
Without a father there is no son, and without a son there is no father.
These two do not exist without depending on each other.
Neither do they exist simultaneously.

The twelve links are exactly the same.
Composite and uncomposite [phenomena]
Are not many, are not one,
Are not existent, are not nonexistent, [and] are not both existent and nonexistent.
These words apply to all phenomena [without exception].
[Defiled] actions have afflictions as their cause,
And the afflictions themselves arise due to [defiled] actions.
The body [also] has [defiled] actions as its cause,
So all three are empty of essence.

All formations are like unreal cities in the sky,
Illusions, mirages, falling hairs,
Foam, bubbles, phantoms,
Dreams and wheels of fire—
They have absolutely no core or substance to them. (66)

The unequaled Thus Gone One
Explicitly taught that
Since all entities are empty of any inherent nature,
All phenomena are dependently arisen.
When one understands that “this arose from those conditions,”
The net of wrong views is lifted.
One abandons desire, ignorance and aversion,
And attains the undefiled state of nirvana.

Under the guidance of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, adapted by Ari Goldfield from a translation in Nagarjuna: Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nagarjuna, ChristianLindtner, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, New Delhi, 1990, pp. 31-69. May 17, 1997.

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