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यथैव कदलीस्तम्भो न कश्चिद्भागशः कृतः। तथाहमप्यसद्भूतो मृग्यमाणो विचारतः॥
If you argue: for whom is there compassion if no being exists?, [our response is] For anyone projected through the delusion which is embraced for the sake of what has to be done.
དཔེར་ན་ཆུ་ཤིང་སྡོང་པོ་དག །
ཆ་ཤས་ཕྱེ་ན་འགའ་མེད་པ། ། དེ་བཞིན་རྣམ་པར་དཔྱད་པ་ཡིས། །
བཙལ་ན་བདག་ཀྱང་ཡང་དག་མིན། །For instance, we may take banana trees—
Cutting through the fibers, finding nothing. Likewise analytical investigation
Will find no “I,” no underlying self.[p.148]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.
For example, there is nothing
If you take the trunk of a banana tree apart. Likewise, if you search for it with thorough analysis,
The self is not really true either. [74][p.710]The Center of the Sunlit SkyBrunnhölzl, Karl. The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition. Including a translation of Pawo Rinpoche's commentary on the knowledge section of Śāntideva's The Entrance to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Bodhicaryāvatāra). Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004.
Exfoliez [le stipe d’]un bananier :
Vous ne trouverez pas de cœur. Analysez le soi :
Vous ne trouverez rien de réel.
Por ejemplo, si cogemos el tallo del platanero
y separamos todas sus capas, no queda nada. Del mismo modo, si lo analizamos exhaustivamente
no encontraremos ningún “yo” real.
For example, like the banana tree,
When taken apart nothing is there. Similarly, when looking with analysis
Also the self is not absolute.
Just as the plantain tree itself cannot be found
By splitting it into parts, Likewise, the self genuinely cannot be found
Through analysis.
དཔེར་ན་ཆུ་ཤིང་སྡོང་པོ་དག །
ཆ་ཤས་ཕྱེ་ན་འགའ་མེད་པ། ། དེ་བཞིན་རྣམ་པར་དཔྱད་པ་ཡིས། །
བཙལ་ན་བདག་ཀྱང་ཡང་དག་མིན། །
