On to Verses 51-60
41 When yogic Calmness is achieved,
So too are the superknowledges; [276b]
But obscuration is not destroyed
Without the Perfection of
Insight.
42 Hence, to remove all obscuration
Of his affliction and his knowledge,
The yogin must continually cultivate the
Perfection of Insight together
with Means.
43 Scripture says that bondage is from
Insight being divorced from Means,
And the Means from Insight as well.
Therefore, neglect not this
union.
44 To remove any doubts about
What Insight is, and what are Means,
I make clear the difference
Between the Means and Insight.
45 The Victors have explained that the Means
Are all the Equipments of virtue,
Starting with the Perfection of Giving,
Up to, but excluding, that
of Insight.
46 One who combines the mastery of the Means
With a true cultivation of Insight
Will swiftly attain Enlightenment, but
Not by cultivating merely
Non-self.
47 "Insight" is fully explained as knowing
The Emptiness of intrinsic nature,
In comprehending that Aggregates and
Sense bases and Elements
do not arise.
48 An existent's arising is impossible;
A non-existent's is like flowers in the sky;
For a thing to be both is absurd fallacy;
So neither do they originate
together.
49 Since an entity does not arise from itself,
And is not from another, or even from both,
Nor is it yet without cause; therefore it has
No intrinsic nature by way
of own-existence.
50 Furthermore, if one analyses all things
As identities or multiplicities,
Own-existence is not perceived; hence one is
Certain that intrinsic natures
do not exist.
