The Living Beings' Dwelling

All realms of living beings
Are in the past, present, or future:
The living beings of past, present, and future
All dwell in the five aggregates.
(form, feeling, discrimination, compositional factors, consciousness)

The five aggregates are based on actions (karma).
Actions are based on mind:
Mental phenomena are like phantoms,
And so indeed is the world.

The world doesn't make itself,
Nor is it made by another,
Yet it has a formation
And also a disintegration.

Though the world has a formation
And a disintegration,
One who understands the world
Would not speak this way.

What is the world,
What is not the world?
World and not world
Are only distinctions of name.

The three times (past, present, and future) and five aggregates,
Are called world,
Their extinction is "not the world":
Thus they are just temporary names.

How are the aggregates explained?
What nature do they have?
The nature of the aggregates is indestructible,
So it is called unborn.

Analyzing these aggregates,
Their nature is fundamentally empty and nil;
Because it is empty, it cannot be destroyed:
This is the meaning of birthlessness.

Since sentient beings are thus,
So also are the Buddhas;
Buddhas and Buddha-teachings
Intrinsically have no existence.

If any can know these things
Truly, without delusion,
The one who knows and sees all
Will always be before them.

Hiran Sanjeewa - FB