Resolution of doubts on conventional truth (Chapter Six)

CMP 6.1

Through the cultivation of reality one attains a body resembling the rainbow (indrāyudha (rainbow, lit. 'Indra's weapon'; the illusory/rainbow body of the adept)). Thus [it is said].

CMP 6.2

When, with regard to aggregate, element, sense-field, faculty, and the rest, the two cognitions abide there equally, then, this great emptiness being present, one who has fallen asleep would indeed behold a dream, by the force of the wind.

CMP 6.3

Between the dreaming and the waking [state] there is no other difference; the one desiring the fruit of the dream would [merely] imagine [one]. By day and night the dream comes upon the creature; in the density of [the element] earth it has slept for a very long time.

CMP 6.4

When the fruit of the deed done is not [yet] ripe, the wind moves on again into [a new] birth here; when the fruit has become ripe, the wind, having departed, [moves] elsewhere—for swift indeed is death in the world.

CMP 6.5

Just as the Lord of Conquerors, established in the ten directions—and there is no marrow, bone, or flesh in his body—would [yet] enter [a body] for the welfare of beings, and accomplishes his task by way of fashioning the [bodily] elements [as illusion]—

CMP 6.6

—so, in due order, one whose mind is [as if] asleep while waking would [merely] wish for a fruit, [which is] a web of conceptual constructions. All dharmas are indeed dream-like; they are neither false nor not-false, for there is the absence of both [alternatives]. Thus [it is said].

CMP 6.colophon

[Here ends] the sixth chapter, the resolution of doubts about the integration [of the stages, concerning] conventional truth (saṃvṛtisatya (conventional, relative truth)). // 6 //