Jewels of the Middle Way by James B. Apple

Author:James B. Apple
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisdom Publications

Further, a sūtra states: “There is not thought; the nature of thought is clear light.”688

[Query:] Of what is it empty?

[Reply:] One’s own mind itself is empty of this appearance [745.5] of various stains that are reified mistakes. The Ratnāvalī explains that one should understand that the minds of existence are minds of great ignorance. As the mind itself appears as all things within cyclic existence and nirvāṇa:

Appearances as mere appearance are empty and elemental forces are only ignorance. The instrinsic nature of entities does not exist. The speculative reasoning that becomes conceptual thought when cultivated as mere imputation does not intrinsically exist and is without cognition. Entities do not exist and the basis-of-all does not exist. These are conceived by childish beings.689

Self-awakened buddhas and buddhas [745.10] and mental afflictions are imputed. The continuum of the person, aggregates, and conditions does not abide. The principal, God, and a creator are conceived from the mind only. All things do not exist with intrinsic natures. The thoroughly afflicted and liberation are not as they appear. There is not nonexistence, there is not existence. This true nature of things that is nonarising is neither an existent nor a nonexistent.690

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