The Heart of Dependent Origination
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- The Heart of Dependent origination
- In the language of India: Pratityasamutpada hridaya karika
- Homage to Mañjushri, the Youthful!
- These different links, twelve in number,
- Which Buddha taught as Dependent origination,
- Can be summarized in three categories:
- Mental afflictions, Karma and Suffering.
- The first, eighth and ninth are afflictions,
- The second and tenth are Karma,
- The remaining seven are Suffering.
- Thus the twelve links are grouped in three.
- From the three the two originate,
- And from the two the seven come,
- From seven the three come once again—
- Thus the wheel of existence turns and turns.
- In which there is no ‘sentient being’ at all.
- All things are devoid of any ‘I’ or ‘mine’.
- Like a recitation, a candle, a mirror, a seal,
- A magnifying glass, a seed, sourness, or a sound,
- So also with the continuation of the aggregates—
- The wise should know they are not transferred.
- Then, as for extremely subtle entities,
- Those who regard them with nihilism,
- Lacking precise and thorough knowledge,
- Will not see the actuality of conditioned arising.
- In this, there is not a thing to be removed,
- Nor the slightest thing to be added.
- It is looking perfectly into reality itself,
- And when reality is seen, complete liberation.
- This concludes the verses on ‘The Heart of Dependent origination’ composed by the teacher Arya Nagarjuna
- | Translated by Adam Pearcey