On to Verses 61-68
51 The reasoning of the Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness,
And of texts like the Basic Stanzas on the Middle Way,
Explains the proof that all entities
Are empty of intrinsic nature.
52 Wherefore, lest my text become too long,
I do not elaborate it here,
But will explain only proven tenets
In order to further contemplation.
53 Thus, not to perceive intrinsic nature [277a]
In any phenomenon whatever
Is to contemplate its Non-Self; which
Is the same as contemplating
with Insight.
54 And this Insight which does not see
Intrinsic nature in any phenomena
Is that same Insight explained as Wisdom.
Cultivate it without conceptual
thought.
55 The world of change springs from conceptual
Thought, which is its very nature;
The complete removal of such
Thought is the Highest Nirvana.
56 Moreover, the Blessed One declared:
"Conceptual thinking is the great ignorance,
And casts one into samsara's ocean; but
Clear as the sky is his contemplation who
Remains in Concentration
without concepts."
57 And he also says in the Non-Conceptual Progress Formula:
"When a son of the Victor meditates on
This holy Doctrine without conceptual thought,
He gradually attains the
non-conceptual."
58 When through scripture and reason one has
Penetrated the non-intrinsic
Nature of all non-arising phenomena,
Then contemplate without
conceptual thought.
59 And when he has thus contemplated Thatness,
And by stages has attained "Warmth" and the rest,
Then he will gain the "Joyous" [Level] and on up:
Buddha-Enlightenment is not
far off.
60 Through the rites of "Appeasement" and "Prosperity"
And the rest, effected by the force of Mantra,
And also by the strength of the Eight Great Powers,
Starting with that "Good
Flask", and others,
