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Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:35 AM

[MillionPaths] Right Knowledge or Knowledge of Relations

Lankavatara Sutra chap3

Then Mahamati said: Pray tell us, Blessed One, about the being and the non-being of all things?

The Blessed One replied: People of this world are dependent in their

thinking on one of two things: on the notion of being whereby they

take pleasure in realism, or in the notion of non-being whereby they

take pleasure in nihilism; in either case they imagine enmancipation

where there is no enmancipation. Those who are dependent upon notions

of being, regard the world as rising from a causation that is really

existent, and that this actually existing and becoming world does not

take its rise from a causation that is non-existent . This is the

realistic view as held by some people.

Then there are other people who are dependent on the notion of the

non-being of all things. These people admit the existence of greed,

anger and folly, and at the same time they deny the existence of

things that produce greed, anger and folly. This is not rational, for

greed, anger and folly are no more to be taken hold as real; they

neither have substance nor individual marks. Where there is a state

of bondage, there is binding and means for binding; but where there

is enmancipation, as in the case of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, masters

and diciples, who have ceased to believe in both being and non-being,

there is neither bondage, binding nor means for binding.

It is better to cherish the notion of an ego-substance than to

entertain the notion of emptiness derived from the view of being and

non-being, for those who so believe fail to understand the

fundamental fact that the external world is nothing but a

manifestation of mind. Because they see things as transient, as

rising from cause and passing away from cause, now dividing, now

combining into the elements which make up the aggregates of

personality and its external world and now passing away, they are

doomed to suffer every moment from the changes that follow one after

another, and finally are doomed to ruin.

from: http://hjem.get2net.dk/civet-cat/zen-writings/lankavatara-sutra.htm

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