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To believe things are real...

English | བོད་ཡིག

To believe things are real...

by Saraha[1]


དངོས་པོར་འཛིན་པ་ཕྱུགས་དང་འདྲ་བ་སྟེ། །
དངོས་མེད་འཛིན་ན་དེ་བས་ཀྱང་ནི་བླུན། །

To believe things are real is to be like cattle;
But to believe they are unreal is yet more foolish.


| Translated by Adam Pearcey 2004. Revised and updated for Lotsawa House, 2025.


Cited in: sgam po pa bsod nams rin chen. Dwags po thar rgyan. Delhi: dkon mchog lha bris. 127a


Version: 1.0-20250917


  1. From Dohakoṣopadeśagīti (mi zad pa'i gter mdzod man ngag gi glu, Toh 2264), A Song of Personal Instructions on the Inexhaustible Treasury). The Tibetan version given here is taken from Gampopa's Dwags po thar rgyan, which is also cited by other authors. The actual version in the Tengyur reads:

    དངོས་པོར་རྟོག་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཕྱུགས་དང་འདྲ་བར་བརྗོད། །
    དངོས་མེད་རྟོག་པ་དེ་བས་ཤིན་ཏུ་བླུན་འགྱུར་ཞེས། །  ↩

Saraha

Saraha

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